BEIRUT, May 10 (Xinhua) -- A Syrian missile landed Thursday in south Lebanon during a major military flare-up between Israeli forces and Iranian and Syrian forces overnight, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

"A surface-to-surface missile landed at dawn in the vicinity of the town of al-Hibbariyeh, during the exchange of fire between the Syrian forces and the Israeli enemy," the NNA said.

According to the report, the projectile only caused material damage, adding that the Lebanese Army experts had examined the exploded missile before transferring it to a military post.

The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International meanwhile reported that another missile had landed in the Bekaa town of Qab Elias near a Syrian refugee encampment.