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Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese militia, also threatened Cyprus if it helped Israel in an all-out war. The Cypriot president responded that his nation was “not involved in any way.”

The Israeli military later said that no bases had been hit and no casualties reported.

The televised statement by the deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, was the first public address by a senior Hezbollah figure since Israel’s killing of the group’s longtime chief, Hassan Nasrallah.

The barrage by Hezbollah was among the heaviest in the months of cross-border strikes that have fed fears that the war in Gaza could expand.

Israel said it had fired back at militants involved in the rocket launches, but the exchange stopped short of a major escalation.

Israel said it had fired back at militants involved in the rocket launches, but the exchange stopped short of a major escalation.

The waves of attacks on Sunday came amid diplomatic efforts to reach a cease-fire in the conflict.

Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s chief, warned that the armed group would punish the small island nation if it allowed Israel to use its airports and bases to target Lebanon.

After years of spoiling for a fight with Israel, the group is torn between maintaining its credibility as a defender of the Palestinians, and its hesitation to drag Lebanon into a full-scale war.

Two members of Hezbollah were reported killed in Syria, near the border with Lebanon, and the Israeli police said that the Hezbollah rocket barrage that followed killed a man and a woman in the Golan Heights.