UPDATES WITH 2 HEZBOLLAH FIGHTERS KILLED
By Anadolu staff
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Thursday that it had attacked dozens of Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon amid growing border tensions between the two sides.
A military statement said fighter jets struck rocket launchers, military buildings and infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in Wadi Saluki, Labbouneh and Taybeh in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah, for its part, said its fighters struck espionage installations with “appropriate weapons” in Israel-occupied Shebaa Farms.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that three anti-tank missiles hit Shtula in Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border.
In another development, Hezbollah said that two of its fighters had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
The group did not provide any details about the circumstances of their death, saying the two fighters were killed on the road to Jerusalem, a phrase used by Hezbollah for its fighters killed by Israel.
At least 197 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since October, according to figures released by the Lebanese group.
Early Thursday, the Lebanese government said it will file a complaint against Israel at the United Nations Security Council over Wednesday’s Israeli drone strike that killed at least seven people in the country's south.
Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah 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 that has killed more than 28,650 people following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar