2023-12-09 22:14:00
BEIRUT, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — A Hezbollah militant was killed on Saturday in one of the Israeli attacks on border areas in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese military source said.
According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Hezbollah militant died in an airstrike on the village of Aita al-Shaab.
Israeli warplanes and drones carried out six airstrikes targeting houses and forests in border areas, destroying six houses and damaging fifteen others, the same source said.
For its part, the Islamic Resistance, the military wing of Hezbollah, claimed that its fighters carried out ten attacks once morest ten Israeli sites, leaving one dead and one injured.
Later in the day, Israeli media reported that three Israeli soldiers were injured on the border with Lebanon and taken by helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa, a northern Israeli port city.
The border between Lebanon and Israel has experienced increased tension since October 8, following Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets towards the Shebaa farms in support of Hamas attacks once morest the Jewish state carried out the day before, bringing in Israeli forces to respond with heavy artillery fire towards the southeast of Lebanon.
According to Lebanese security sources, the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel left 144 dead on the Lebanese side, including 99 Hezbollah members, one Lebanese soldier and 27 civilians, including 3 journalists. END
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