The Israeli army announced the injury of the two soldiers after notifying their families and said that they were being treated at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, northern Israel. The condition of one was serious but stable, while the other sustained moderate injuries.

On the other hand, the Lebanese National News Agency reported in Tyre (southern Lebanon) that the Israeli army launched violent artillery shelling in the vicinity of the towns of Naqoura, Alma Shaab and Jabal El-Labouneh after midnight.

The news agency indicated that this was accompanied by the launching of incendiary bombs into forests adjacent to the Blue Line, noting the presence of reconnaissance aircraft and flare bombs over villages in the western and central sectors, reaching the outskirts of the towns of Zabqin, Yater and Kafra.

For its part, Hezbollah announced Tuesday that its fighters targeted “an assembly point for the enemy soldiers near El-Marj with appropriate weapons and caused direct casualties there,” in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and in support of their resistance, according to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. 

The border area between the two countries has seen daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza last month.

Israeli war crimes

On 5 November, an Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon killed the sister of radio correspondent Samir Ayoub and her three granddaughters, aged 10, 12 and 14, Lebanese state media said.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said that this attack should be investigated as an "apparent war crime."

"This attack by Israeli military forces that struck a car carrying a family fleeing violence shows a reckless disregard for civilian life," stated Ramzi Kaiss, a Lebanon-based researcher at Human Rights Watch.

"Their killing is a violation of the laws of war, and Israel's allies, like the United States, should respond to this apparent war crime by demanding accountability for this unlawful strike," Kaiss said.

Human Rights Watch said it found no evidence of a military target in the vicinity of the strike.

"But [even] if there were one, targeting a car carrying civilians... makes the strike unlawful," Kaiss said.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced the attack at the time as an "abhorrent crime committed by the Israeli enemy", and said the cars had been targeted by drones.

At least 88 people have been killed in Lebanon since hostilities began: more than 60 Hezbollah fighters, 12 other combatants including from Palestinian groups, and 11 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

Cross-border violence since October 7 has killed nine people in northern Israel including six soldiers, according to official figures.

Another seven Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria in strikes attributed to Israel.