IDF troops killed several Hezbollah operatives during an exchange of fire in southern Lebanon overnight, the military says, reporting no injuries among the Israeli forces.
According to the IDF, troops of the Givati Brigade spotted several armed Hezbollah gunmen during ground operations.
The soldiers exchanged fire with one of the operatives, killing him. The Givati troops then directed an Israeli Air Force drone to strike several more gunmen who had fired on the forces. A short while later, three more operatives were killed by tank shelling, the military says.
No Israeli soldiers were hurt in the incident, the army says.
The military says that the IAF also struck Hezbollah command centers in Beirut overnight. Those strikes came after the IDF reiterated an evacuation warning for the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, a Hezbollah stronghold.
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