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| Israel and Hezbollah trade fire across Lebanon border | Israel and Hezbollah trade fire across Lebanon border |
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| The Israeli army and fighters from the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah have traded fire across the border. | |
| An Israeli army spokesperson said there was "ongoing combat" in the Mount Dov area, part of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. | An Israeli army spokesperson said there was "ongoing combat" in the Mount Dov area, part of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. |
| He said there were no Israeli casualties. There has been no official word about injuries from Lebanon. | |
| The area has been tense for days after a Hezbollah fighter was killed in an alleged Israeli air strike in Syria. | The area has been tense for days after a Hezbollah fighter was killed in an alleged Israeli air strike in Syria. |
| Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied it carried out the strike in the early hours of last Monday, had warned Hezbollah not to retaliate. | |
| The Israeli military said "three to four" militants had crossed into Israeli territory but had fled after Israeli forces fired on them. | |
| Israel and Hezbollah are bitter enemies who fought a month-long war in 2006 after Hezbollah killed eight Israeli soldiers and abducted two in a cross-border raid. | |
| The ensuing conflict killed some 1,191 people - mostly civilians - in Lebanon, and 121 soldiers and 44 civilians in Israel. |