Iran launched missiles against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for strikes on a Beirut suburb considered a Hezbollah stronghold.
It is the first time Iran launches attacks against Israel since the ceasefire announced on April 8.
An IDF spokesperson said before the attacks that the country was preparing for incoming fire. "The IDF has reinforced its defensive capabilities and is maintaining a high level of readiness and alertness for a variety of defensive and offensive scenarios," the spokesperson said. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the strikes, Axios reported.
The attacks follow Israeli strikes in Dayieh, which the country claimed were a result of continued strikes against its northern region.
Mohamed Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament, had threatened with strikes earlier on Sunday, saying that the U.S.'s continued blockade of the Hormuz Strait and the U.S.'s approval of Israel strikes in Beirut "turn the U.S.'s bases and assets in the region into legitimate targets."
Tehran had also condemned a report claiming that the U.S. is reportedly considering using frozen Iranian assets to finance the rebuilding by Gulf allies who sustained damages resulting from the country's strikes.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent directed a team to assess the cost of damages sustained by allied countries in the Gulf, CNBC noted.
The development came shortly after a top Iranian official said a deal with the U.S. is contingent on the unfreezing of funds. "The negotiations are at a deadlock and President Donald Trump must break this deadlock," Mohsen Rezaei, adviser to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, told CNN.
He went on to say that if Trump "wants to reach an agreement with Iran, this $24 billion is a test of trust that Iran wants to have with Trump – this is a test that America must pass and the path will be opened." "This is our own money, not America's money," he added.
Elsewhere in the interview, Rezaei threatened to "drag the war" beyond the gulf if the U.S. resumes strikes. "We will give another dimension to the war by attacking these other American bases that we have been attacking so far," he said, noting however that the "possibility of war is low."
Rezaei also rejected any chance of a meeting between Trump and Khamenei, saying "right now we are in the first stage of negotiations and Mr. Trump has brought the negotiations to a standstill."
