Israeli airstrike on Lebanon kills one Hezbollah fighter, wounds six

One Hezbollah fighter was killed on Monday and six other people were wounded in violence that engulfed areas on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said one person was killed and four others were also injured in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Houla in southern Lebanon, with three of them taken to hospital.

Hezbollah announced the death of one of its fighters on Monday but did not say where or when he was killed, however a Lebanese security source said he was killed in the airstrike on Houla.

The ministry added that a new Israeli airstrike had slightly wounded two paramedics working for a Hezbollah-affiliated medical emergency group in Tayr Harfa in south Lebanon.

It said that an Israeli mortar shell hit near the car of the paramedics while they were "carrying out their humanitarian duties" after the Israeli strike.

Earlier, the Israeli army said it had attacked “terrorist infrastructure” in the Houla area.

The Israeli strikes came after a number of projectiles were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel and were intercepted. No injuries were reported on the Israeli side of the border.

Hezbollah said it fired rockets at various targets in northern Israel to avenge Israeli strikes on civilian areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Sunday.

Since the war began 11 months ago in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, which is allied with Hezbollah, there have been almost daily military confrontations between the Israeli army and Hezbollah in the border area between the two countries.

There have been deaths on both sides, most of them members of Hezbollah. Hezbollah says it is acting in solidarity with Hamas.