Death toll of Hezbollah's fighters rises to 56 in cross-border clashes with Israel

By Waseem Saif Al-Din

BEIRUT (AA) - Hezbollah announced on Friday that one of its fighters lost his life during clashes with the Israeli army on the southern border of Lebanon.

The group did not disclose further details about the circumstances surrounding the member's death.

This raises the death toll of members of the militant group to 56 since Oct. 7.

Israel continues hitting border villages and towns.

The official Lebanese agency reported the solar energy project in the town of Tire Harfa was struck, which supplies the public water well with electricity.

Tension has flared along the border between Israel and Lebanon, with exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah amid an Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip.

The border clashes have been the deadliest since Hezbollah and Israel fought a full-scale war in 2006, when the Lebanese group struck major Israeli cities with rockets, causing significant damage.

More than 1,000 Lebanese were killed in that war, while much of southern Lebanon — a Hezbollah stronghold — was devastated by Israeli attacks.

*Writing by Ziad Aslan