Seven Israeli soldiers killed during clashes with Hezbollah in Lebanon

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Seven Israeli soldiers killed during clashes with Hezbollah in Lebanon
Israeli soldiers

The Israel Defense Forces has announced that seven of its soldiers have been killed in a series of clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

The deaths mark the first casualties in such a high IDF number since Israel began its ground incursion into Lebanon early this week. Earlier, the IDF said another soldier had died in the operation, bringing the total death to eight.

The soldiers killed include four members of a commando unit, two members of an intelligence unit and one member of the engineering corps.

The commandos were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Lebanon village, according to a report in the Times of Israel. Five other soldiers were seriously injured in the incident.

Hezbollah claimed to have killed a "large number" of Israeli soldiers during some of the first direct clashes between the two sides since the start of the Israeli operation on Monday evening.

The ground incursion into southern Lebanon is Israel's largest since it fought in 2006 against Hezbollah.

Seven Israeli soldiers killed during clashes with Hezbollah in Lebanon
The soldiers killed

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