In Lebanon, dozens of victims were reported killed and wounded in new Israeli raids, including the second soldier killed since the beginning of the war about a year ago.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed, on Monday, that 63 people were killed and 92 injured in a series of Israeli raids on various areas in the south and east of the country.

For its part, the Lebanese army announced on Monday the death of a soldier as a result of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a motorcycle as it passed a checkpoint in southern Lebanon, making him the first soldier to be killed since Israel began launching intensive raids on several areas last week.

"A soldier was martyred as a result of an Israeli enemy drone targeting a motorcycle as it passed a checkpoint" in the Wazzani border area with Israel, the army said in a post on the X platform.

According to a source close to the army, the Israeli drone targeted "the bicycle that two Syrians were riding, which resulted in the soldier being hit by shrapnel, and he was martyred as a result."

This is the second Lebanese soldier to be killed by Israeli fire since Hezbollah and Israel began exchanging fire on October 8, after the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

Since September 23, Israel has launched the "most violent and extensive" attack on Lebanon since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah about a year ago, which has resulted, until Monday afternoon, in no less than 962 deaths, including children and women, and 2,778 wounded, according to data from the Lebanese authorities.