An early warning is issued in the southern city of Ashdod amid a Hezbollah missile attack from Lebanon.

Sirens sound across central Israel amid a Hezbollah missile attack from Lebanon.

One missile fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon at the southern coastal city of Ashdod a short while ago was intercepted, according to the IDF.

The Home Front Command for the first time issued an early warning for the missile attack, around two minutes before sirens sounded in the port city.

Sirens were also activated in Tel Aviv and surrounding towns in central Israel due to the interception of the missile and fear of falling fragments.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir says the fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon is the military's "primary combat zone."

"The IDF is in a state of war, we are not in a ceasefire. We continue to fight here in this sector, this is our primary combat zone," he said during a visit to the outskirts of Bint Jbeil yesterday, where the IDF has been battling Hezbollah.

"In Iran, we are in a ceasefire, and we can return to fighting there at any moment, and in a very powerful way," Zamir added, in a video released this morning by the army.

The IDF publishes footage showing the identification of Hezbollah operatives and subsequent strikes against them during ongoing ground operations in southern Lebanon.

During one incident on Wednesday, troops of the 769th "Hiram" Regional Brigade spotted a cell of Hezbollah operatives in their area of operations.

"One of the terrorists was identified hiding in the bushes. Immediately after the identification, the terrorist was eliminated by the Air Force," the military says, adding that a vehicle with the remaining members of the cell was seen fleeing the scene, and it was also struck.

The IDF says it has destroyed more than 200 Hezbollah rocket launchers and killed over 250 members of the terror group's artillery units since the start of the fighting in Lebanon.

According to the IDF, the 200 launchers included some 1,300 separate launch barrels.

Among the 250 Hezbollah artillery operatives were 15 commanders, the IDF says, adding that this week it killed the chief of artillery in the terror group's Nasr regional division, which is responsible for the area between Mount Dov and Bint Jbeil.

Vice Adm. Eyal Harel will enter the role of Israeli Navy chief next week, after an initial handover date was delayed due to the war in Iran.

Harel is replacing Vice Adm. David Saar Salama, who has been Navy chief for over four years.

The initial handover date was set for late March. It will now take place on Thursday.

The IDF says it struck and killed two Palestinian terror operatives in the Gaza Strip yesterday who were planning "imminent" attacks on troops.

In southern Gaza, the IDF killed Mahmoud Barim, a member of the Mujahideen Brigades terror group, who the military says had been carrying out surveillance on troops and "possessed a large amount of weaponry.

In northern Gaza, the IDF killed Ahmad Muhammad Saleh, a member of Hamas's elite Nukhba Force, "who had advanced several terror attack plans against IDF troops," the military says.

The IDF says the strike targeting Saleh also killed several more Hamas operatives.

"The terrorists posed a real threat to IDF troops and were eliminated in precise strikes," the military adds.

Hezbollah launched a barrage of five rockets at the northern city of Karmiel a short while ago.

According to the IDF, all five were intercepted by air defenses.

Since this morning, Hezbollah has launched several dozen rockets at northern Israel.

Hezbollah operatives launched rockets from a school in southern Lebanon a short while ago, the IDF says, attaching footage of the incident.

The IDF says that in the drone video from the southern Lebanese village of Shihabiyah (Tayr Zibna), "the thermal signature of the launcher can be clearly seen, as well as its transfer in real time into the school grounds."

Hezbollah's launching of rockets from the school "constitutes a violation of international law," the IDF says.

The military adds that it struck the facility "to remove the threat to the State of Israel."

Footage published by Lebanese media shows heavy Israeli strikes in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon a short while ago.

The Israeli military says it has killed more than 1,400 Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon since hostilities escalated on March 2.

They include hundreds of members of the terror group's elite Radwan Force, according to the IDF.

Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli attacks have killed over 1,800 people since the war began, including over 300 on Wednesday alone.

The IDF says it has also destroyed some 4,300 Hezbollah "terror infrastructures" and seized more than 1,000 weapons during ground operations in southern Lebanon.

In the past day, the Israeli Air Force hit 120 Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon "to remove threats to the forces," the IDF adds.