Fresh skirmishes erupt on Lebanon-Israel border

Israel on Saturday shelled the outskirts of the southern Lebanese border towns of Naqoura, Kfarshouba, al-Wazzani, Blida, Mhaybib, al-Dhayra, Alma al-Shaab and Tayr Harfa amid reports of Hezbollah attacks on Israel's Misgav Am and a surveillance pole near al-Wazzani.

The Israeli army said Saturday that it had fired overnight "toward the source of" unspecified launches from Lebanon towards Israeli territory.

Fighter jets also struck targets of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military said. Lebanon's National News Agency said violent airstrikes targeted the southern Lebanese border town of Aita al-Shaab causing injuries.

Hezbollah meanwhile said that one of its fighters who hailed from Aita al-Shaab was killed by Israeli fire in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah had overnight announced attacking the Ramia Israeli post, saying that the assault caused deaths and injuries. It had announced a series of attacks throughout Friday.

Hezbollah says it entered the fray in support of Hamas on October 8, the day after the Palestinian militants launched their unprecedented attack on south Israel.

More than 120 people have been killed on the Lebanese side of the border since October 7, mostly Hezbollah fighters and more than a dozen civilians, according to an AFP tally.

Israel says six of its soldiers and four Israeli civilians have been killed in the area, and Lebanon lost its first soldier in the exchanges on Tuesday.