Israel strikes Lebanon after rocket salvo

A Palestinian militant was killed and five others were wounded, according to medical sources, while the Israeli army said a soldier was lightly injured in the tit-for-tat attacks.

The air force raided two bases of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), while Israel angrily announced it would lodge a complaint with the United Nations.

Israeli fighter bombers swooped several times to fire 15 missiles at a base in Sultan Yaacub in eastern Lebanon, less than 10km from the border with Syria, causing the casualties, police said.

They then targeted a base in Naameh, some 10km south of the Lebanese capital, that comprises a network of underground tunnels and has been the target of several past Israeli air strikes.

The bombing of the base, located near the busy highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon, triggered traffic jams and panic among motorists, police said.

Early Sunday, militants in south Lebanon fired several Katyusha rockets towards an army base in northern Israel, wounding a soldier and causing damage, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.

The rocket salvo hit a base near the town of Safed, 20km south of the international border with Lebanon.