Lebanon's Hezbollah launched a missile strike Wednesday on a military base in northern Israel that left 14 soldiers wounded, six of them seriously, according to media reports.

The strike was in response to one by Israel on Tuesday, Hezbollah said, that killed three people, including two local Hezbollah commanders and another operative in Ain Baal and Shehabiya.

Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed ally of Hamas, have been exchanging cross-border fire since the start of the war in Gaza in October.

Following Wednesday's strike on Arab al-Aramshe, an Arab-majority village in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Israel said it "struck the sources of fire" by Hezbollah. Later, its fighter jets struck a building in eastern Lebanon that an Agence France-Presse photographer described as a food warehouse.

The continued tit-for-tat strikes raise concerns of further escalation, especially following the weekend strike by Iran on Israel that involved about 300 drones and missiles.

According to Reuters, at least 370 Lebanese, including more than 240 Hezbollah fighters and 68 civilians, have been killed. On the Israeli side, 18 soldiers and civilians have been killed.

Some information for this report came from Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

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