JERUSALEM / BEIRUT - A rocket fired from Lebanon on Saturday hit a building in the Arab-Israeli city of Tira in central Israel, injuring 19 people, four of them moderately and the rest lightly, Israel's state-owned Kan TV News reported.

According to the TV channel, a drone launched from Lebanon on Saturday hit a factory located north of the city of Nahariya in northwestern Israel, with no casualties.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Saturday that two additional rockets launched from Lebanon into central Israel were intercepted by the Israeli air defense system.

The IDF said it killed two Hezbollah commanders in the city of Tyre in southwestern Lebanon on Friday.

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Mousa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah's forces in the coastal sector, and Hassan Majid Daib, the Lebanese armed group's artillery commander in the same region, were responsible for launching more than 400 projectiles into Israel over the past month, according to the IDF.

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes struck the Al-Qaa Jousieh border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for the second time in a week on Saturday, Lebanese military sources said.

Four air-to-ground missiles hit the Syrian side of the crossing in the northeastern Hermel region, creating a crater 10 meters long and 4 meters deep, the sources told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The strike rendered the crossing inoperable after it had been partially reopened following an earlier raid.

Israel has targeted the Masnaa border crossing and five other official crossings, along with numerous unofficial routes along the Lebanon-Syria border, since Oct 4, according to Lebanese officials.

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The strikes come amid intensifying cross-border exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah since Sept 23, which have raised fears of a wider regional conflict as the Israel-Hamas war continues in Gaza.

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the conflict on Oct 8, 2023, reached 2,968, while injuries went up to 13,319, the Lebanese health ministry reported on Saturday.