Two Israeli forces killed in regime's new push to invade southern Lebanon
The Israeli regime has announced the death of two more of its occupation forces in fierce clashes with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah amid the illegal entity’s attempts to invade the south of the Arab country.
The Israel military said in a statement on Thursday that two soldiers from the Egoz and Golani Reconnaissance units were killed “by mortar fire,” and seven others were injured in clashes with Hezbollah fighters along the Lebanese border with the occupied territories.
The casualties took place a day after eight Israeli soldiers were killed during battles against Hezbollah as they pushed for the ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
Six of the occupation forces were Egoz commandos. An officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
The latest casualties bring the total number of Israeli forces killed in the ground aggression against southern Lebanon since Tuesday to at least 16, a figure that is highly contested by local media reports and sources as the occupying regime has for long adhered to a policy of not disclosing its combat-related death toll.
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah have escalated since the occupying regime on Friday assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, in a strike on southern Beirut using US-supplied bunker-buster bombs.
The terrorist act came almost a year into Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and bloody airstrikes on Lebanon.
The death toll from Israeli aerial assaults across Lebanon since early October 2023 has passed the 1,700 mark with nearly 8,770 injured, according to Lebanese government data. In response, Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets and drones towards Israeli targets.
Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, including with hypersonic ballistic missiles, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war, which has so far killed more than 41,780 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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