At least eight killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon, security sources say

Security sources are telling Reuters that at least eight people including Hezbollah fighters have been killed in two Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon.

Five people were killed in a strike in Tair Harfa, a border village, and a strike shortly afterward hit a restaurant in the border town of Naqoura, killing at least another three people, the security sources and official Lebanese media said.

Hezbollah said it had launched dozens of rockets over the border at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel early on Wednesday in response to deadly Israeli air strikes on the village of Hebbariyeh in southern Lebanon a day earlier.

Those air strikes near two towns in northeast Lebanon killed three Hezbollah fighters, the armed group said.

Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire across the border since Israel's war on Gaza began in October.