JERUSALEM/BEIRUT -- About 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel on Friday night, causing no casualties, following Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, Israel military said.

The rockets triggered sirens in multiple communities across the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. (Israel-Hezbollah-Rocket Firing)

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ADEN, Yemen -- At least three pro-government soldiers were killed in a drone attack by the Houthi group in Yemen's southern province of Lahj on Friday, a military official told Xinhua.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, stated that the Houthis targeted a military patrol with a drone on the Karsh front in the province, an area that has witnessed sporadic fighting between the two warring sides. (Yemen-Houthis-Drone Attack)

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GAZA -- At least three Palestinian journalists were injured in an Israeli shelling targeting them at the Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian sources said on Friday.

Eyewitnesses told Xinhua that the Israeli artillery fired a shell towards a group of journalists while they were covering events in the Nusseirat camp. (Israel-Gaza Conflict-Journalists Killing)

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JERUSALEM -- Israel's military chief Herzi Halevi said on Friday that the army was prepared, in close coordination with the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), for a possible Iranian retaliatory attack.

Israel was on high alert on Friday as warnings increased of Iranian retaliation following Israeli airstrikes on Iran's embassy in Damascus, in which seven senior Iranian officers were killed. (Israel-Iranian Retaliation-Preparedness) Enditem

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