Israel-Hezbollah border clashes: Latest developments
Hezbollah targeted Tuesday a group of Israeli soldiers in the al-Raheb post, a day after four of its fighters were killed in Israeli strikes on south Lebanon.
The group later targeted a group of soldiers in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, has traded near daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces since the Palestinian group's October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
On Monday, a fifth Hezbollah fighter was killed in an Israeli strike on Syria,
and an Israeli soldier was "lightly injured" in a Hezbollah attack on the Biranit barracks in north Israel.
Hezbollah announced Tuesday the death of one of its fighters, Qassem Saqlawi, "on the road to jerusalem." The Israeli army said he was killed in an Israeli strike on Tyre. It claimed that Saqlawi was a "commander of the rocket and missile array in Hezbollah’s Coastal Sector and was responsible for planning and executing rocket attacks and anti-tank launches toward Israel from the coastal sector in Lebanon.
Meanwhile Israeli artillery shelled the southern town of al-Wazzani and al-Khiam with phosphorus bombs.
The fighting has killed at least 426 people in Lebanon, mostly militants but also including 82 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
Israel says 14 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed on its side of the border.
The violence has raised fears of all-out conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, which went to war in 2006.
Source: Naharnet
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