Lebanon’s Amal group says 2 more of its members killed in border clashes with Israel

By Stephanie Radi

BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s Amal Movement said Sunday that two of its members were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon.

In a statement, the Hezbollah-allied group said that the pair had lost their lives “while fulfilling their national duty to defend Lebanon and the south," without providing any further details.

The new fatalities brought to eight the number of the group’s members killed in clashes with Israeli forces since October.

Tension has escalated along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchange of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah since early October, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 that has since killed more than 28,000 people and caused mass destruction and shortages of necessities.