Hezbollah in Lebanon Claims Responsibility for Strikes Injuring Israeli Soldiers

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility Monday for a strike that wounded four Israeli soldiers in the country’s north. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging near-daily fire for over seven months following an attack by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7. Hezbollah fighters fired a guided missile at an Israeli Merkava tank, destroying it. The Israeli army reported that two anti-tank missiles crossed from Lebanon into the area of Yiftah, a kibbutz community less than two kilometers from the border, resulting in four soldiers being wounded. Earlier in the day, Hezbollah launched a swarm of explosive drones targeting Israeli artillery battalion tents and sleeping quarters, but the attack caused no casualties. In total, at least 410 people have been killed in Lebanon, mostly militants, with 79 civilians also among the casualties. Israel has reported 14 soldiers and nine civilians killed on its side of the border, with tens of thousands displaced on both sides.