BEIRUT: At least two Hezbollah fighters were killed and three others injured in an Israeli drone attack on a residential building in south Lebanon on Thursday.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7.
An Israeli drone shot 2 guided missiles at the building in Kfar Rumman, close to south Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh, AFP reported.
Kfar Rumman lies around twelve kilometres from the Israeli border.
Hamas ally Hezbollah had claimed a series of strikes on Israeli forces and positions on Thursday, including one which it said was in response to Israeli strikes on villages and civilian houses.
The violence on Israel’s northern border has generated fears of another full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah like that of 2006.
Causalities on Lebanese side
Since October, about 273 people have been killed on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah members but also including forty-two civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, ten soldiers and 6 civilians have been killed, as per the tally provided by Israeli army.
Last week, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah pledged that Israel would pay “with blood”, after ten civilians, including 7 members of one family, were killed in Lebanon’s largest single-day death toll so far. 5 Hezbollah fighters were also killed.
On Wednesday, an Israeli attack killed a woman and a girl, prompting retaliatory fire from Hezbollah.
