14 IDF soldiers were injured Wednesday in northern Israel after a strike claimed by the Lebanese movement backed by Iran. On Tuesday, Israel said its strikes in southern Lebanon killed two local Hezbollah commanders and a third member of the movement.
Cross-border violence has so far left 368 dead on the Lebanese side, mainly Hezbollah fighters but also some 70 civilians, according to an AFP count. In northern Israel, ten soldiers and eight civilians were killed, according to the army. Tens of thousands of residents had to flee the area on both sides of the border. Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas on October 7, Hezbollah has carried out daily attacks against Israel to support its ally, the Palestinian Islamist movement. Exchanges of fire between the two parties have intensified in recent days, in an extremely tense regional context after an unprecedented attack by Iran against Israel, which says it wants to retaliate. Hezbollah had previously claimed "a complex attack with guided missiles and explosive drones against the command post of a reconnaissance company. "