Israel-Hezbollah clashes: Latest developments
Hezbollah said Saturday that it mounted two morning attacks on the Birkat Risha Israeli post near the border, inflicting deaths and injuries.
Media reports said four Israeli soldiers were wounded in the attacks, one of them critically.
Hezbollah later announced attacks on four more Israeli posts, saying it targeted groups of Israeli soldiers.
Israeli artillery shelling meanwhile targeted the Wadi Hassan area on the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of al-Jibbain as well as the peripheries of the Lebanese towns of Khiam, Deir Mimas, Blida, Houla, Mays al-Jabal and Kfarkila.
In a statement, Hezbollah announced the death of one more of its fighters, Radwan Hammoudi, saying he hailed from the southern city of Tyre.
Later on Saturday, Israeli media outlets reported alert sirens in northern Israel and explosions in the Upper Galilee area, saying the sirens sounded amid a suspected aerial infiltration from Lebanon. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV meanwhile reported that Israeli interception missiles exploded over the Lebanese town of Aitaroun.
Since October 8, the day after the Israel-Hamas war started, the frontier between Lebanon and Israel has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which says it is acting in support of Hamas and the Palestinian people.
Since the cross-border exchanges of fire began in October, more than 120 people have been killed on the Lebanese side of the frontier, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including a Lebanese soldier and 17 civilians, three of them journalist.
More than 64,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon, mostly in the south, figures from the International Organization for Migration show.
On the Israeli side, at least six soldiers and four civilians have been killed, authorities there have said.
Source: Naharnet
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