Hezbollah has intensified its attacks on Israeli military positions in recent days (file photo)
Three Hezbollah fighters were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in southern Lebanon on Saturday, the group said in a statement.
“Three Hezbollah fighters were killed and two others seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Jebain area,” a source close to the group told AFP earlier.
Hezbollah later confirmed the figure, adding that it attacked “two buildings used by enemy soldiers” in Metulla and Shlomi, northern Israel, “in response to attacks by Israel’s enemies.”
Hezbollah said in an earlier statement that it fired at multiple Israeli targets, including soldiers and spy equipment.
The Israeli military separately said it had attacked a “compound and terrorists operating from it” in the Ashshabu area of Aita.
It also said it struck a “terrorist operating within the Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the Qafakra region.”
Since Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, triggering the war in Gaza, there have been almost daily cross-border exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hamas ally Hezbollah.
According to AFP statistics, the violence has killed at least 375 people in Lebanon, most of them militants, but also including 70 civilians.
According to the military, 10 soldiers and eight civilians were killed in northern Israel.
In the past few days, Hezbollah has intensified its attacks on Israeli military positions, and tensions in the Middle East have intensified.
On April 13, Iran, which supports both Hezbollah and Hamas, launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel in retaliation for a deadly airstrike on April 1 that leveled its consulate in Damascus.
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