Lebanese army says two more of its soldiers killed in Israeli strikes

Lebanon’s military says that three of its soldiers were killed in two Israeli airstrikes in the country’s south, with the Israeli army maintaining its operations were not targeting Lebanese troops.

“Two soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike while traveling by motorcycle on the Zibdin-Nabatyieh road” in south Lebanon, the Lebanese army says in a statement.

It had said earlier that another soldier died from wounds sustained in a strike on a car and a motorcycle in the same area that also injured four others.

An official from the military tells AFP the soldiers had just finished their duties for the day.

The Israeli military says in a statement that it is “aware of the claim that several soldiers of the Lebanese Armed Forces were injured as a result of an IDF strike.”

“The incident is under review,” the army said, adding that Israeli forces were operating “against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, and not against the Lebanese Armed Forces or Lebanese civilians.”

While Lebanon’s army has tried to stay out of the war, three Lebanese soldiers were killed by Israeli shelling earlier this month during a failed Israeli commando operation in eastern Lebanon.