BEIRUT, April 29 (Xinhua) -- The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, on Monday claimed responsibility for launching rockets from southern Lebanon toward the headquarters of the Eastern Brigade in northern occupied Palestine.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that they "bombed from southern Lebanon the headquarters of the 769th Eastern Brigade (Jibour Camp) in northern occupied Palestine, in response to the Zionist enemy's massacres in Gaza and the rebellious West Bank."

Meanwhile, a Lebanese military source told Xinhua that about 35 surface-to-surface missiles were monitored on Monday from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel, some of which were intercepted by Israeli Iron Dome missiles, with several exploding above the Marjayoun Plain area in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon.

According to the source, Israeli warplanes carried out on Monday morning four raids on three villages and towns in the western and central sectors, while Israeli artillery bombed ten border towns and villages in southern Lebanon with about 40 shells, and no casualties were reported.

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. Enditem

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