Hezbollah gunners renewed their rocket attacks on northern Israel yesterday morning, killing a baby and his mother, local media reported.

A rocket slammed into a house in the Israeli Arab village of Dir el-Asad, near Karmiel, killing a 3-year-old toddler and his mother, and wounding two more people while 38 others were treated for shock.

The number of deaths of Israeli Arabs killed in Hezbollah barrage has been raised to to 17 so far.

Rocket alert sirens sounded across northern Israel on Thursday. Some 160 rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday, with 66 landing in the area of Kiryat Shmona.

In total, some 3,350 rockets have been fired at northern Israel since the war broke out on July 12, leaving dozens of civilians dead.