Israeli forces on Saturday said they had killed several 'terrorists' trying to cross from Lebanon amid heightened tensions and after repeated cross-border shelling.
Israeli forces on Saturday said they had killed several "terrorists" trying to cross from Lebanon amid heightened tensions and after repeated cross-border shelling.
Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas, which launched a major attack from Gaza on October 7 in which its gunmen killed at least 1,300 people in the worst ever attack on Israel. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said Friday it was "fully prepared" to join its Palestinian ally Hamas in the war against Israel when the time is right.
Amid the mounting tensions, Israel shelled two villages in south Lebanon near the border on Friday, Lebanese security sources said, following a blast on the border fence.
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