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Lebanon's Hezbollah said six of its fighters were killed in Israeli strikes on Tuesday, with the group claiming cross-border attacks and low-flying Israeli warplanes breaking the sound barrier over Beirut.

Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza.

Tensions have soared in the past week as Iran and its allies vowed revenge for the killing, blamed on Israel, of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and after an Israeli strike killed Hezbollah's top military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Lebanon's health ministry said an "Israeli enemy raid on a house in the town of Mayfadun", near the southern city of Nabatiyeh, killed five people, while another Israeli strike in the Adaysseh area killed one person.

The Israeli military said its air force "struck a Hezbollah military structure" in the Nabatiyeh area that was being used "to advance terror attacks" against Israel.

The dead in both locations were "Hezbollah fighters", a security source told, requesting anonymity because the matter is sensitive.

Hezbollah later announced six members had been killed "on the road to Jerusalem", the phrase it uses to refer to fighters killed by Israel.

The Iran-backed group said it launched "dozens of Katyusha rockets" at a military base in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in retaliation for the Israeli "attack and assassination" in Mayfadun.

The Israeli military said some 30 "projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon" after sirens sounded in northern Israel and the Golan, while regional councils in the north urged residents to stay close to shelters and avoid public gatherings in open spaces.