JERUSALEM

The Lebanese group Hezbollah late on Tuesday fired at least three anti-tank missiles at areas in northern Israel, Israeli media reported.

The missile attack is the first following the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday evening.

Arouri was the most senior Hamas leader to have been killed by Israel since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7.

The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that shortly after the assassination, the Hezbollah group fired an anti-tank missile at a target in the Margaliot area near the borders with Lebanon.

The Haaretz daily also reported another Hezbollah attack with two anti-tank missiles against an Israeli military position near the community of Menara, close to the Lebanon border, with the Israeli army responding to the sources of fire.

Hezbollah said in a brief statement that its fighters carried out a series of attacks on Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the al-Marj military site.

The group, in an earlier statement, condemned the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Salah Arouri in Beirut and vowed that the “assassination crime of Arouri and his comrades will never go unpunished.”

The assassination is a “serious attack on Lebanon, its people, security, sovereignty, and resistance,” Hezbollah said.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara