The IDF targeted a group of terrorists who were operating near the border in Lebanese territory, the IDF said on Friday.
Earlier, the IDF reported multiple launches from Lebanon towards the Mount Dov area in Israeli territory.
The IDF responded with artillery fire directed at the source of the launches.
Additionally, following the fall of a mortar near Kibbutz Dan in northern Israel on Friday, Highway 99 was closed to traffic from the She'ar Yeshuv junction to the east, the Upper Galilee Regional Council said.
False alarm
Later, a rocket alarm sounded in the northern Israeli community of Dovev, near the border with Lebanon. The alarm, however, was a false alarm, the IDF said.
The IDF added that it confirmed 20 launches from Lebanese territory that had been fired into Israel.
Developments on the front throughout the day
Additionally, on Friday afternoon, multiple anti-tank missiles were fired toward IDF positions on the Lebanon border. Fire from light arms was also directed toward an IDF observation post.
No casualties were reported among IDF personnel from these events, but IDF continued to respond with artillery fire directed at the sources of the shooting.
Later on Friday evening, after a rocket alert that was activated in the northern Israeli community of Metulla, the IDF identified an additional two launches that crossed into Israel from Lebanese territory.
Also, the IDF stated that it had targeted another anti-tank missile unit in Lebanon.
This was the fourth such unit to be attacked in the past day.
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Several hours later, the IDF again announced that it had intercepted a missile flying into Israeli airspace from Lebanese territory.
The IDF also targeted a Hezbollah position.