Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Sunday the killing of two of its members in clashes with the Israeli army on the southern border, bringing the party's death toll to 60 since October 8.
Hezbollah said in a statement, "The Islamic resistance is killing the martyr Ahmed Mohammed Salim, from the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the martyr Qassem Ibrahim Abu Taam, from the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon."
This brings Hezbollah's death toll in the confrontations with Israel to 60.
In a parallel context, the Lebanese news agency said that Hezbollah fighters shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon, and 4 people were wounded in shelling carried out by an Israeli march on an ambulance in the town of Tayr Harfa (south), according to the agency.
The agency added that Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of the towns of Marwahin, Al-Dhahera, Talbsin and Alam al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.
Mutual bombardment
For its part, the Israeli army announced that the Iron Dome intercepted, on Sunday, a march launched from Lebanon towards Israeli territory.
"A march approaching inside Lebanese territory towards Israeli territory was detected, followed by monitoring and surveillance systems, and was successfully intercepted deep into Lebanese territory," the army said in a statement.
"The Iron Dome system was used in the interception operation," he said.
"The firing of several anti-tank shells from Lebanon towards Israel was also detected in the Avivim border area," the statement said.
The Israeli military reported that the Malkia area "came under some shells, and the sources of fire were shelled with artillery," without elaborating.
For about a month, the Lebanese-Israeli border has been witnessing on a daily basis mutual and sporadic shelling between the Israeli army on the one hand and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon on the other, leaving dead and wounded on both sides of the border.
These confrontations come on the backdrop of a devastating war waged by the Israeli army on Gaza for the thirtieth day, in which about 9770,4800 Palestinians were killed, including 2550,24 children and 151,2080 women, and more than <>,<> others were injured, and <> Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and <>,<> were arrested, according to official Palestinian sources.