<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A source within Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Israel struck today one of its buildings in Lebanon’s east, close to the Syrian border, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“The Israeli strike targeted an area … near Baalbek and targeted a two-storey building belonging to Hezbollah,” a source within the group told AFP, adding there were no casualties.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency also reported that “an enemy air strike targeted a building” in the village of Nabi Sheet and “destroyed it”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier today, Hezbollah said it had twice launched barrages of rockets towards the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, after it joined in the major Iranian drone and missile attack against Israel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Iranian attack was in response to an April 1 air strike widely blamed on Israel that destroyed an Iranian consulate building in Damascus, killing seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hamas ally Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with Israel since the Palestinian group attacked southern Israel on Oct 7 triggering the war in the Gaza Strip.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The violence has so far killed at least 363 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also including at least 70 civilians, according to an AFP tally.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Israel, the military says 10 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes on both sides of the border. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>