The attack in the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, an area where Hezbollah holds sway, followed rocket fire toward northern Israel.

Israel launched an airstrike on Beirut for the first time since a U.S.-backed cease-fire took effect in November, amid growing frustrations among some American officials about the Lebanese government’s slow progress in disarming Hezbollah in the country’s south.

Israel carried out an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs Friday in a first such attack since the Nov. 27 cease-fire agreement that ended the war with Israel.