Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement reported that an Israeli air strike on Sunday killed two of its fighters, with the health ministry confirming another death from an earlier attack.

Hezbollah has been engaging in near-daily exchanges of fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 attack on Israel triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.

Tensions have escalated significantly since a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late last month killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, just hours before the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which was blamed on Israel.

An “Israeli strike that targeted the village of Taybeh today left two dead,” the Lebanese health ministry stated. Hezbollah confirmed that the deceased were group fighters, killed in Taybeh near the Israeli border.

The official National News Agency reported that “a drone fired two missiles on the village of Taybeh.”

The Israeli military stated it had “struck several Hezbollah military structures in the area of Adaisseh,” adjacent to Taybeh, throughout the day. Later, the military announced it had “struck a Hezbollah terrorist cell in Taybeh” and “a military structure in Derdghaiya,” noting secondary explosions indicating the presence of weapons.

The health ministry reported that at least one Lebanese and 11 Syrians were injured, two seriously, in an Israeli strike on Maaroub, near Derdghaiya. Additionally, the ministry clarified that a Lebanese man who succumbed to injuries from an Israeli strike on Beit Lif several days ago was a Hezbollah fighter, not a civilian as initially reported.

Hezbollah claimed multiple attacks on military positions in northern Israel on Sunday, including at least two using attack drones. On Saturday, the group launched “squadrons of explosive-laden drones” at a northern Israeli army base following the killing of a Hamas commander in Sidon, southern Lebanon, the previous day.

The cross-border violence since early October has resulted in at least 565 deaths in Lebanon, mostly fighters but also including at least 116 civilians, according to an AFP tally. On the Israeli side, including the annexed Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to army figures.

Thousands have been displaced on both sides of the border due to the ongoing fighting.