The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire during the late hours of Saturday and early Sunday in a sign of escalating tensions in the Middle East. Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets into northern Israel in what the militant group said was an attack to avenge the killing of its senior commander, Fuad Shukr, in early July. Israel carried out its own ‘pre-emptive’ strikes across southern Lebanon in what it said was ‘self-defence’ against an imminent large scale attack. Three people were killed in Lebanon by the Israeli strikes, including a fighter with the Amal party, a group allied with Hezbollah