Hezbollah launched a barrage of 140 rockets into northern Israel on Friday, a day after its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed revenge for a massive Israeli bombing, according to statements from both the Israeli military and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel crossed "all the red lines" by detonating thousands of communication devices used by group members with the intention to kill some 5,

Israel has carried out what its military called a “targeted strike” on Beirut. It offered no further immediate details.

Israeli military jets bombarded southern Lebanon Thursday, while Hezbollah struck sites in northern Israel, after mass walkie-talkie and pager explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday killed at least 37 people in Lebanon and injured thousands of others in what is widely believed to be a coordinated attack by Israel.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday blamed Israel for the deadly attacks targeting the group’s electronic devices in Lebanon, calling them a “massacre” that crossed a “red line”. In his

Israeli air strikes come after Hezbollah vowed to retaliate over deadly exploding device attacks blamed on Israel.

Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets Friday, a day after the militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Israel for a mass bombing attack, the Israeli military and the militant group said.

Hezbollah and the Israeli military traded new strikes over the border on Thursday. Fears are increasing that 11 months of exchanges of fire between the two sides will escalate into all-out war. Hassan Nasrallah,