Hezbollah said Saturday its fighters were battling Israeli troops in Lebanon's southern border region, where the Israeli military announced it struck militants from the Iran-backed movement at a mosque.
Rapidly escalating violence in recent days saw intense Israeli strikes on Hezbollah strongholds across Lebanon as ground troops conducted raids near the border, transforming nearly a year of cross-border exchanges into full-blown war.
In the first reported Israeli air strike on the northern Tripoli region in the current flare-up, Palestinian militant group Hamas said a "Zionist bombardment" of the Beddawi refugee camp killed a commander, Saeed Attallah Ali, as well as his wife and two daughters on Saturday.
