Hezbollah confirms its fighters clashed with Israeli troops in south Lebanon

Hezbollah says its forces clashed with Israeli soldiers on Monday in south Lebanon near the border where the troops are still operating, despite a fragile ceasefire since April 17.

The Iran-backed terror group says in a statement that after Israeli troops attempted to advance near the town of Deir Seryan, its fighters “opened fire on the enemy force and engaged in heavy clashes with them.”

Deir Seryan is inside the Israeli-declared “yellow line” running up to 10 kilometers (six miles) deep along the length of the border in south Lebanon, where residents have been told not to return.

The IDF confirmed earlier Monday that there were clashes with Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon during which two of its soldiers were moderately wounded.

The army said that soldiers returned fire, and the Israeli Air Force also struck Hezbollah sites in the area, including buildings used by the terror group and its anti-tank guided missile launch posts.

Hezbollah also claims a series of other attacks on Israeli military targets in south Lebanon that it says were in response to “the Israeli enemy’s violation of the ceasefire.”

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports Israeli air strikes on more than 20 south Lebanon locations, some of them towns where the Israeli military earlier Monday told residents to evacuate.

Lebanon’s army says that “an officer and a soldier were lightly wounded” in an Israeli strike on the town of Kafra “while they were traveling in a military vehicle between army posts.”