Israeli strike targets motorbike on Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road

An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road on Tuesday, killing two Syrian nationals.

Heavy-caliber artillery shells meanwhile targeted the outskirts of the southern town of Deir Mimas.

Israeli forces had at dawn fired heavy-caliber machineguns at the forests that are adjacent to the southern border towns of Ramia, Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura and Alma al-Shaab. Israeli artillery also targeted the stream of the Litani River, the Slouqi valley facing the town of Qabrikha, and the outskirts of the town of Bani Hayyan.

On Monday night, Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona in response to an Israeli strike that killed a Hezbollah member and his sister in Bint Jbeil.

Hezbollah has traded almost daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in the Gaza Strip.

The violence, largely restricted to the border area, has raised fears of all-out conflict between the foes, who last went to war in the summer of 2006.

In Lebanon, the cross-border violence since October has killed 505 people, mostly fighters but also including 98 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, at least 29 people have been killed, the majority of them soldiers, according to the authorities.