Israel has carried out air strikes on targets belonging to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon and Gaza Strip. Israeli military said the attacks were a response to a dozens of rockets fired from Lebanon into northern part of the country.<br />''<br />''The barrage of rockets in Lebanon was the largest since a 2006 war between the two countries. Militants in Gaza fired dozens more rockets after the strikes began.<br />''<br />''According to Israeli officials, two Israeli sisters were killed in a shooting attack near a settlement in the occupied West Bank hours after the Israeli strikes.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Tensions are high in the region following two nights of Israeli police raids at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem earlier this week.</span><br />