Violence erupts on Israel-Lebanon border
Israel shelled southern Lebanon on Saturday after a rocket slammed into its territory in a tit-for-tat exchange of fire across their tense border, sources on both sides said.
Israeli public radio said a woman was lightly injured by flying glass in her home when the rocket landed near the Israeli town of Maalot near the Lebanese border.
In Lebanon, panicked residents were fleeing the border area, where loud explosions could be heard, an AFP correspondent said.
The Lebanese army said Israel had responded by firing artillery shells.
UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon have set up checkpoints and were preventing people from heading into the area of the clashes, residents said.
The Israeli army could not immediately confirm the reports.
In January, rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel in attacks that frayed frayed nerves on both sides of the tense border and raised fears that the war in Gaza could spread.