The wreckage of storage units destroyed by a Hezbollah rocket is pictured during a guided tour by the Israeli military for international journalists in Kfar Giladi, Israel, a kibbutz near the border with Lebanon,

Israel’s military chief told troops that airstrikes against Hezbollah were in preparation for a potential ground invasion of Lebanon, after Israeli air defenses intercepted the militant group’s first attempted missile strike on Tel Aviv.

Hezbollah launched a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv early Wednesday, in a further escalation after Israel carried out strikes on Lebanon that killed hundreds of people and the militants fired rockets across wider areas of northern Israel.