Two Israeli soldiers injured in shooting operation near Dead Sea

At least two Israeli soldiers have been injured in a shooting operation in the occupied territories near the Dead Sea, amid retaliatory attacks by Palestinians against the regime’s year-long onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

The regime’s media said the attack occurred on Friday after three armed operatives “infiltrated Israel from Jordan,” and opened fire near the Neot HaKikar settlement south of the Dead Sea.

Reports claimed that two of the attackers were “neutralized,” and a manhunt was launched for the third one who fled the scene.

Israeli media stopped short of providing further details on the attack but underscored the possibility of more armed operatives having crossed into the occupied territories from Jordan.

On September 8, at least three Israeli guards were killed in a retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge on the border between the West Bank and Jordan.

The Israeli military said that the assailant arrived at the terminal in a truck from Jordan and opened fire at workers at the crossing before being shot dead by the occupation.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas praised the heroic operation as a “natural response” to the crimes committed by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank over the past year.

Palestinian factions hail ‘heroic’ shooting operation at West Bank-Jordan crossing

Palestinian resistance factions have hailed as “heroic” the retaliatory shooting operation near the Allenby Bridge which left three Israeli settlers dead.

Since Israel unleashed the war on Gaza in early October last year, casualties have been rising in the West Bank as a result of intensified near-daily Israeli raids into villages and cities in the occupied territories.

At least 692 Palestinians, including 158 minors, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces or extremist Jewish settlers since the war began. More than 5,700 Palestinians have been wounded and at least 10,400 detained.

As many as 42,438 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have also been killed and 99,246 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip during the regime’s genocidal war.

Israel confirms 5 soldiers killed in Lebanon

Meanwhile, the Israeli military confirmed the death of five of its soldiers from the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit on the ground invasion in southern Lebanon.

The military also said another officer and two soldiers were seriously injured in the ground aggression as a number of other soldiers sustained injuries during separate battles in southern Lebanon.

Earlier reports had put the number of Israeli military fatalities at seven.

7 Israeli forces killed in clashes with Hezbollah: Reports

At least seven Israeli forces are reportedly killed during clashes with Hezbollah on Lebanon’s southern border with the occupied Palestinian territories.

Last month, the regime assassinated Lebanon's Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike on southern Beirut.

Since then, the resistance movement has increased its retaliatory strikes against Israeli targets and vowed to continue its fight in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon.

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