Israel and Hezbollah trade fire after heaviest airstrikes yet

Hostilities rumbled on at the Lebanese-Israeli border on Friday (September 20) following Israel's most intense airstrike in nearly a year of conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah. Smoke was seen rising on both sides of the Lebanon-Israel border and Israeli public broadcaster Kan said on Friday around 150 rockets were fired from Lebanon across the border. Also on Friday Lebanon's Hezbollah announced they launched seven separate attacks on Israeli targets with Katyusha rockets. Israeli airstrikes on Friday hit at least three villages in south Lebanon, according to security sources in Lebanon and Hezbollah's al-Manar television, which broadcast footage of a cloud of smoke rising from one of the attacks. Hezbollah said its fighters had fired a guided missile at Israeli troops in Metula, on the other side of the border from the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila. Metula is an Israeli town frequently targeted by the Lebanese group over the last year. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The year-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the worst since they fought a war in 2006. Tens of thousands have had to leave homes on both sides of the border. (production: Karamallah Daher, Imad Creidi, Yvonne Bell)