MEZIESBLOG

We brought you reports from the Lebanese army earlier that two people had been killed and three others injured after the Israeli military struck southern Lebanon (see our earlier posts).

Now, the army has said the airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three other troops.

The airstrike hit a building near a military checkpoint in Kafra, Bint Jbeil province in southern Lebanon and came just hours after Israeli troops fired on the headquarters of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers.

Lebanon’s army has largely stayed on the side lines of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in hopes of preventing it from spiralling out of control.

After Israeli troops launched their ground invasion in southern Lebanon, Lebanese troops withdrew some 5km from their observation posts along the border.

But as Israel escalates its campaign against Hezbollah with waves of heavy airstrikes across Lebanon and a ground invasion at the border, Lebanese troops have increasingly found themselves in the crossfire.