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

Israel has claimed the death of a senior Hezbollah military official after a rare Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 37 people and wounded dozens more, shortly after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with 140 rockets.

Hezbollah on Friday launched around 140 rockets at northern Israel, a day after the Iran-backed militant group’s chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate against Israel for the mass bombing attack. Israel’s military stated that the rockets came in three waves in the afternoon,

The Israeli military has ordered another evacuation of some residential areas in northwest Gaza where it says Palestinian militants fired rockets on the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon.

Hezbollah unleashed a barrage of 140 rockets into northern Israel on Friday, a day after the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed retaliation for recent Israeli strikes. The attack, which occurred in three waves,

An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Israel killed at least two Hezbollah commanders and other members of the group in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 20.