Sirens sounded four times in different areas inside Israel on Monday night, due to attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, while the Israeli occupation army acknowledged the killing of four of its soldiers and the wounding of three during battles in southern Lebanon .
the Israeli occupation army announced in a statement that it had detected the launch of a missile barrage from Iran targeting Jerusalem and central Israel, the first such launch today.
Minutes later, the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported the sounding of sirens in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea area, the Jordan Valley, Greater Tel Aviv, and a number of settlements in the West Bank.
that fragments of interceptor missiles fell in the city of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, without reporting any injuries so far, according to its claim.
Amid mounting losses on the northern front, the Israeli occupation army acknowledged in an official statement the killing of four soldiers, including an officer, during battles in southern Lebanon.
The dead are: Captain Noam Madmoni (22 years old) from the city of Sderot, Sergeant Ben Cohen (21 years old) from the settlement of Lehavim, and Sergeant Maxim Antis, all of whom were fighters in the reconnaissance unit of the “Nahal” Brigade.
The Israeli army indicated that a fourth soldier was killed in the same incident, but his name has not yet been released. Three other soldiers were wounded in the same incident, one seriously and two moderately.
This brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the recent fighting in Lebanon to 10, in addition to dozens wounded.
In other developments on this front, the newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that sirens sounded three times during the night in northern Israel as a result of attacks by Hezbollah .
The party announced in separate statements that it had carried out three attacks, including targeting an Israeli Merkava tank on the road between the towns of Qantara and Taybeh in southern Lebanon with a guided missile, which caused it to catch fire and resulted in injuries.
In northern Israel, the party targeted a military checkpoint in the settlement of Misgav Am with drones, and an air defense system in the settlement of Ma'alot-Tarshiha.
Hezbollah entered the fray on March 2, in response to the ongoing Israeli raids on Lebanon despite the ceasefire agreement, and as part of the aggression launched by Tel Aviv and Washington against Tehran on February 28.
On the same day, Israel expanded its attacks on Lebanon, launching raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut and other areas, and embarking on a limited ground incursion into the south on March 3.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Monday that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon since March 2 has risen to 1,247 martyrs and 3,680 wounded.
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