JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Israeli troops carried out operations in Gaza and Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 8 people.
According to an update from the Gaza health authorities, Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians over the past day.
For its part, an Israeli military spokesperson said in a statement that the troops shot and killed four militants after they exited an underground tunnel shaft and opened fire toward the soldiers in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
"Troops are continuing to operate in the area to locate and eliminate all the terrorists within the underground tunnel route," the spokesperson said.
In southern Lebanon, three people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle, according to the Emergency Operations Center of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
On the attack, the Israeli military said that a Hezbollah operative was struck in the Yanouh area, saying it was a "response to Hezbollah's repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings."
An Israeli military spokesperson later identified the "Hezbollah operative" as Ahmad Ali Salami, the group's head of artillery in the Yanouh area. ■
