The Israeli military said about 160 rockets were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon the previous day.
Hezbollah identified the commander as Taleb Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb and born in 1969.
A Lebanese military source said the commander was "the most important in Hezbollah to be killed up to now since the start of the war".
The source said the Israeli strike hit the town of Jouaiyya, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the border, and also killed three other people.
Sources with Hezbollah said the Lebanese militants had initiated the largest attack on northern Israel since the war's onset, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
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