Hizbullah announced Sunday it destroyed an Israeli military vehicle and killed and wounded those inside, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the attack did not cause any casualties.

Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said Israel retaliated to the operation by striking the "attack cell", firing around 100 shells on south Lebanon and launching a number of helicopter raids.

The Israeli army on Sunday fired several 155mm shells on the Jabal al-Rous area in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Hills, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.

It said the Israelis opened fire from their posts in the al-Zaoura area in Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Sunday described Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah as an “Iranian puppet,” hours after the Hizbullah leader reiterated that his group will retaliate against Israel over a deadly airstrike in Syria and a drone explosion over Beirut’s southern suburbs.

“Nasrallah is an Iranian puppet who has taken charge of the file of the Iranian attack that had been planned from Syria, and most probably he had not been aware of it,” Katz tweeted in Arabic.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday his movement's response to a recent Israeli drone attack on the group's southern Beirut subrubs stronghold had been "decided."

Head of Hizbullah's Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad said Saturday that Hizbullah “seeks no war with Israel,” but aims to make it respect the rules of engagement drawn up in 2006 after the end of the conflict between the two, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

Israel hurled at dawn on Saturday more than 30 flare bombs near the Lebanese border mainly over the towns of Ghajar, Shebaa and Kfar Shuba heights, the National News Agency reported.

The Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut highlighted a “split” between the government and Hizbullah over ways to respond to the breach, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.

Hizbullah's al-Manar television said Friday that two drones used in the suspected Israeli attack in Beirut's southern suburbs were flown from Israeli gunboats off the Lebanese coast.

Al-Manar's report came five days after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hizbullah stronghold while another exploded and crashed nearby.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday told French President Emmanuel Macron that "those who provide shelter for aggression and arming" will not be spared, in an apparent reference to Lebanon and Israel’s claims that Iran and Hizbullah are building missile production facilities on Lebanese soil.

In a phone call initiated by the French leader, Netanyahu said that Iran was stepping up its aggression in the region, the Israeli PM’s office said.

A Hizbullah official said Friday that his group’s anticipated retaliation against Israel will take place deep inside Israel.

“The stance of Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has pushed the Zionist enemy to live in a state of extreme terror, panic and caution, to an extent that it has started hiding behind dummies in its military vehicles,” ex-MP Mohammed Yaghi, who is Nasrallah’s executive aide, said.