Hezbollah says 2 members killed, bringing total since Oct. 8 to 60

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) - Two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah group were killed during clashes with the Israeli army on the southern Lebanese border, the group said in a statement, raising the party’s death toll to 60 since Oct. 8, according to an Anadolu analysis.

Earlier on Sunday, the Lebanese News Agency said Hezbollah fighters shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon.

Four people were also injured on Sunday in a bombing carried out by an Israeli drone on an ambulance in the town of Tayr Harfa, the agency said.

Israeli artillery also bombarded the outskirts of the towns of Marwahin, Al-Dhahira, Talbasin, and Alma Al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

Since Oct. 8 the Israeli-Lebanese border has seen intermittent exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions. This exchange of fire is considered the deadliest since Hezbollah and Israel fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tension comes as Israel widened air and ground operations in the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Hamas on Israeli border towns on Oct. 7.

The death toll as a result of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 is 9,500, including 3,900 children and 2,509 women, according to the latest figures, while Israel reports their death toll at nearly 1,540.