Israel starts strikes in Lebanon 

Israeli forces struck sites in southern Lebanon on Saturday after rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel.

Israel said rockets were linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Hezbollah denied responsibility for Saturday's strikes, saying it had no link to the rocket launches and that it remained committed to the ceasefire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

That conflict marked the deadliest spillover of the Gaza war, rumbling across the border for months before a blistering Israeli offensive that wiped out Hezbollah's top commanders, many of its fighters and much of its arsenal.

An Israeli official said that the identity of the group which fired the rockets was still unconfirmed. Six rockets were fired, the official said, three of which crossed into Israel and were intercepted.

Saturday's exchange was the first since Israel in effect abandoned a separate ceasefire in Gaza with Palestinian militant group Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah, both backed by Israel's arch-foe Iran.