Israeli forces carry out offensive operations in southern Lebanon / Article

The minister announced that half of the commanders of the militant group “Hezbollah” in southern Lebanon have been eliminated in recent months. “The other side is hiding and leaving the Israeli army’s field of operations,” he added, without giving a specific number.

The army said in a separate statement that it had attacked about 40 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, including weapons depots, with fighter jets and artillery.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that Israel carried out more than 13 strikes in southern Lebanon.

The strikes followed Hezbollah’s announcement that its fighters had fired rockets across the border again today. The group also fired rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday in response to the deaths of two civilians it blamed on Israel.

Since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in October last year, Hezbollah and the Israeli army have regularly shelled positions across the Lebanese border, but so far the violence has been confined along the border without spreading much further.

AFP news agency estimates that at least 380 people in Lebanon have been killed in this violence so far, most of them Hezbollah fighters. The Israeli army has announced that 11 soldiers and eight civilians were killed.

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