Israeli strike on Kfar Rumman kills 2 Hezbollah fighters including commander

At least two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli drone strike on a residential building in south Lebanon on Thursday, a security source said.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7.

An Israeli drone shot two guided missiles at the building in Kfar Rumman, near south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh, the security source said, declining to be identified as they were not authorized to brief the media.

Israeli reports meanwhile said the slain Hezbollah fighters included a commander of the group's elite Radwan force who was responsible for the Shebaa Farms area.

Kfar Rumman lies around 12 kilometers from the Israeli border.

Hezbollah said it later fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at two Israeli military barracks in response to the Kfar Rumman attack.

Hezbollah had claimed a series of attacks on Israeli troops and positions on Thursday, including several which it said were in response to "Israeli attacks on villages and civilian houses."

The violence on the border has sparked fears of another full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah like that of 2006.

Since October, at least 273 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.

Last week, Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed that Israel would pay "with blood," after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day death toll so far.

On Wednesday, an Israeli strike killed a woman and a girl, prompting retaliatory fire from Hezbollah.