Today, Monday, Israel announced a plan to evacuate residents of settlements near the Lebanese border, and acknowledged the killing of an officer in its army in a bombing by the Lebanese Hezbollah, amid an exchange of attacks between the two sides in conjunction with the continued occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Defense and the Israeli army said - in a joint statement - that "a plan will be implemented to evacuate residents of northern Israel who live in a two-kilometre-deep sector of the Lebanese border to state-funded accommodation."

One of these settlements, Shtoula, was subjected to a missile attack from Hezbollah yesterday. Israeli media said that a civilian was killed.

For its part, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported that an Israeli army officer was killed yesterday by anti-tank fire on the Lebanese border.

The newspaper said that the Israeli army allowed the publication of the name of Lieutenant Amitai Zvi Granot (24 years old) from Tel Aviv, a team leader in the 75th Battalion - storming formation from the Golan.

She explained that the lieutenant fell yesterday during operational activity as a result of anti-tank fire near the Nurit site, without further details.

Nurit is an Israeli military site located in the western region of the border with Lebanon.

Attack exchange

Hezbollah announced that it attacked with machine guns 8 Israeli positions along the border line with Israel.

The occupation army said that its forces attacked Hezbollah military infrastructure at night in response to the shooting that occurred yesterday towards Israel.

Tensions erupted on the Israeli-Lebanese border following the Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, which entered its tenth day.