On Monday, the Israeli army targeted residential buildings in several towns and villages in southern Lebanon with air strikes and artillery shelling using phosphorous shells, while Hezbollah announced that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers near the Lebanese border.

The party said in a statement that its members targeted "a force from the Israeli military forces on the Abu Dajj heights (off the Lebanese town of Ramieh) with appropriate weapons, and they were directly hit."

The party announced earlier today that its members targeted “a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Raheb site opposite the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, with appropriate weapons and achieved a direct hit,” while there was no immediate comment from the Israeli side.

At dawn on Monday, Hezbollah reported that it had repelled an attack by Israeli forces off the southern border, “which intended to strike targets inside Lebanese territory.”

For its part, the official Lebanese News Agency reported that Israeli army artillery targeted the town of Kafr Kila with phosphorous shells, amid a sweeping operation with machine guns from Metulla towards the town.

It pointed out that "the Israeli raid on the town of Taybeh earlier today caused major damage to the town's high school, and the high school director and members of the educational staff survived the aggression."

The agency indicated that "an Israeli drone fired a missile at a residential room inside an agricultural project in the Abel al-Qamh locality in the outskirts of the town of Wazzani, without recording any casualties."

It also stated that "an Israeli drone fired a missile behind the Khiam detention center (its name dates back to the days of the Israeli occupation of the south) - Wadi Al-Asafir, and enemy artillery bombed Al-Awaida Hill from the Taybeh side."

Eyewitnesses reported to Anadolu's correspondent that an Israeli raid targeted a house in the town of Taybeh, while artillery shelling targeted the eastern outskirts of the town of Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon.

In the wake of a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, since October 8, the Israeli-Lebanese border has witnessed tension and intermittent exchange of fire between the Israeli army on the one hand, and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions on the other hand, which led to deaths and injuries on both sides, in addition to It led to deaths and injuries among Lebanese civilians.

For 108 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which as of Monday morning left “25,295 dead and 63,000 injured, most of them children and women,” according to the Palestinian authorities, and caused “massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” according to the United Nations.