The Israeli army said it shelled Lebanon early on Tuesday in response to earlier rocket attacks, as the UN urged both sides to show "maximum restraint".
"Two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory," the army said. It said one was intercepted by air defences and the other hit open ground.
"In response ... artillery struck in Lebanese territory," the Israeli army said.
The rockets were fired at Israel from the Qlaileh area of southern Lebanon, where a third rocket was also found, a Lebanese security source told AFP.
The source said the Lebanese army had not identified the group responsible for the launch.
The head of Israel's army, Aviv Kohavi, speaking at a northern military base, said the country would "respond either openly or in secret, or both at the same time, to every violation of our sovereignty".
The UN peacekeeping force in the border region said it had boosted security in the area and "launched an investigation" in collaboration with Lebanon's military.
It said it was "in direct contact with the parties to urge maximum restraint and avoid further escalation".
The last time rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel was in May, during an 11-day conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip.
In recent weeks, Israeli officials have expressed growing concern over the deepening economic crisis in Lebanon and its ramifications for border security.
"The state of Lebanon is responsible for the rockets fired overnight, as it allows terrorists to operate within its territory," Defence Minister Benny Gantz tweeted.
"We will not allow the social, political and economic crisis in Lebanon to turn into a security threat to Israel.
"I call on the international community to take action to restore stability in Lebanon."
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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