Hezbollah resistance fighters have carried out an operation against Israeli forces as they attempted to infiltrate Lebanon in the Hadab Aita forest area, causing casualties and forcing the Israeli troops to retreat.

At least ten people have been killed and five others seriously wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted a residential building northwest of the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.

Amid heightened regional tensions in West Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon.

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a speech on Thursday at the funeral ceremony of a top-ranking Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr.

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah says the fighting has entered “a new phase” after Israel’s assassination of its top military commander Fouad Shukr and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

Hezbollah’s secretary general warns the Israeli regime about an extensively destructive response should it launch a ground invasion of Lebanon.

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