The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Sunday issued a security alert for Israel as the country’s military confirmed it carried out strikes overnight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, which returned fire.
Israel said the strikes were meant to prevent a large attack from Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, prompting it to respond by firing rockets and drones on Israeli military positions as an initial response to the killing of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.
