The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Sunday that the casualties were caused by a raid on a house in the village center southeast of Kafar Kila.

Sources said Israeli forces carried out 12 air strikes on eight border towns and villages in southern Lebanon, destroying 15 houses and damaging 25 others, Xinhua news agency reported.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah said its fighters attacked Israeli sites of al-Malikiyah Misgav Am, Jal al-Alam and Doviv Barracks.

On Sunday evening it also said it had shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone over the Lebanese village of Aichiyeh in the Jezzine district.

The armed group said Israeli drones were attacking locations in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah and the Amal Movement are both notable Shia parties in Lebanon.

Additionally, the al-Qassam Brigades in Lebanon, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), claimed that it bombed Israel "Shomera" barracks in the western area of ​​the Upper Galilee region with 20 Gray missiles.

Tension escalated along the Lebanon-Israel border on October 8, 2023, after Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery towards southeastern Lebanon.

According to Lebanese security sources, the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel have left 433 people dead on the Lebanese side, including 277 Hezbollah members and 76 civilians.