The military had targeted Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah Group With Overnight Air Strikes On Southern Lebanon.
The military had targeted Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah Group With Overnight Air Strikes On Southern Lebanon.
Since the start of the war triggered by the unprecedented attack by Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally Hamas on Israel on October 7, clashes on the Israel-Lebanon border have left more than 10 people dead on the Lebanese side.
Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023. Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were on October 17, headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, aid officials said. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP
Israeli troops killed four militants attempting to infiltrate from Lebanon, the army said Tuesday, as tensions run high along the border between the two countries.
The Israeli army denied it had been using the incendiary weapon white phosphorus in either Gaza or south Lebanon after Human Rights War accused it of doing so last week.
It did not immediately comment on Tuesday’s NNA report.
The international community fears the opening of a second front in the conflict, with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group joining Hamas in the fight against Israel.