At least seven Israeli forces have reportedly been killed during clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement on the country’s southern border on Wednesday with the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli media outlets said the fatalities were caused during the clashes that took place near the Lebanese villages of Aita al-Shaab and Ramia on the border.
Scores of other troops were wounded, some 17 of them seriously, during the confrontation that followed an ambush by Hezbollah, the outlets noted amid reported tight censorship being imposed around the incident by the Israeli military, Press TV reported.
Earlier, reports indicated that at least 49 wounded troops had been evacuated to hospitals in the occupied territories following the incident.
Some 44 of the wounded were flown to hospitals in the city of Haifa in the northern part of the territories.
Rambam Hospital in the city declared a mass casualty event and called for additional medical staff after eight helicopters landed there bearing the casualties.
According to Hezbollah, the confrontation saw the group’s fighters “engaging in violent clashes with the Israeli forces from zero distance with various types of machineguns.”
The clashes are reportedly continuing amid heavy artillery bombardment and helicopter activity in the area.
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