Israel confirms soldier killed in Hezbollah attack

One Israeli soldier was killed Friday in clashes with Hezbollah on Lebanon's border, Israeli radio said, as the Israeli army announced it hit Hezbollah targets with airstrikes after rocket and anti-tank missile fire.

Israel on Friday ordered the 25,000 residents of the northern town of Kiryat Shmona to evacuate.

Hezbollah for its part said that it attacked Israeli troops and inflicted casualties in response to a deadly attack on journalists and civilians a day earlier.

Since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, at least 22 people have been killed in south Lebanon.

Most of them have been combatants, but at least four civilians, including a Reuters journalist, have been killed. At least three Israeli troops and a civilian have been killed in Israel.

Hezbollah last fought a major conflict with Israel in 2006.

That war left more than 1,200 dead in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 in Israel, mostly soldiers.