The Israel Defense Forces began conducting what it called "precise strikes on military targets" in Iran in response to the barrage of Iranian missiles fired toward Israel earlier this month. Some "strong" explosions were heard around Tehran, though the cause of the sounds were not immediately clear.

The deaths occurred in Hasbaya, a town about 10 miles from the Israeli border that had previously been spared much of the devastation of the war.

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Saturday that it launched a drone attack against Israel's Tel Nof airbase, south of Tel Aviv, and had also targetted an intelligence base in the northern Israeli city of Safed with a rocket salvo.