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Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the country’s latest military offensive in Lebanon that has so far killed nearly 400 people.
The soldier’s death marked Israel’s first military death since it escalated hostilities against Israel Hezbollah in the Lebanon last week.
The two men were said to have died when a rocket launched by militants hit their regiment as bulldozers were being used to try to free a trapped tank, according to Israeli media.
That Israel The Defense Force did not immediately provide further details regarding the cause of their deaths.
One of the soldiers has been identified as Maher Khatar, 38, from a village in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights that is made up mostly of ethnic Druze.
The IDF has not released the name of the second soldier because his family is still being notified.
Violence has increased along the Israel-Lebanon border since the incident The US launched military action against Iran more than a week ago.
Israel has carried out airstrikes and ground attacks in southern Lebanon, with a bomb attack in the town of Sir El Gharbiyeh early Sunday, according to local authorities.
The village’s mayor, Saadallah Maatouk, said 14 residents were killed and six others were injured in Israeli military attacks in one day.
He said: “14 people were killed and six were injured. We are used to this; this is Israel, and whatever happens, it will not affect us.”
Israeli tanks on the Israeli side of the border. Photo: Reuters
Other residents of the city, which was affected by airstrikes that destroyed buildings and left piles of rubble, said that all the dead were women and children.
Lebanon’s Health Minister said on Sunday that 83 children were among the 394 children killed so far since the conflict between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group began more than a week ago.
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The Israeli military has carried out a military operation in the southern Lebanese town of Nabi Chat to find the remains of Israeli navigator Ron Arad, who disappeared in the region in 1986.
Israeli troops entered the town and dug graves in the cemetery as part of the search for missing Arad, a resident told The Associated Press.
The mission left at least 41 people dead and 40 injured, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday.
Ron Arad. Photo: Reuters
Destruction remains after the Israeli attack on Nabi Chit. Photo: Reuters
Hezbollah and local fighters clashed with Israeli forces, and the country’s air force carried out 40 airstrikes in the area to allow personnel on the ground to withdraw.
Israel’s military said on Sunday it had struck more than 600 targets in Lebanon and 3,400 targets in Iran since the escalation of violence in the Middle East began.
