BEIRUT

The Lebanese Hezbollah group on Friday said it carried out eight military attacks against Israeli military sites near the Lebanese southern border areas.

In separate statements, the group said the attacks were carried out "in support of the steadfast of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in solidarity with their courageous and honorable resistance."

In one statement, the Hezbollah said it attacked the Israeli Masgav Am site "with the appropriate weapons."

In another statement, the group reported targeting the Al-Raheb site and inflicting a direct hit against it. In a third statement, Hezbollah said it attacked the Ruweisat Al-Alam site in the occupied Lebanese Shabaa Farms area with appropriate weapons and achieved direct hits.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese official news agency NNA said an Israeli helicopter attacked a home in Marwahin town, while the Israeli artillery shelling struck other areas in southern Lebanon including the towns of Shihin, Zibqin, Khiam and Odaisseh.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tensions came amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar