At least 14 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Israeli’s ground aggression in Lebanon, the regime’s sources said, a day after it launched a cross-border ground incursion into southern parts of the Arab country.

Since the onset of Israel’s ground aggression into Lebanon on Tuesday, at least 14 Israeli soldiers have been killed during clashes with Hezbollah fighters with many reported injuries among the invaders, reports Sky News Arabia.

A statement by the Israeli army said on Wednesday that an Israeli soldier had so far been killed “during combat in Lebanon.”

In a follow-up statement, however, the Israeli army admitted that the death toll among its forces had risen to eight.

Israel has for long had a policy of not disclosing the true number of soldiers killed in combat and providing significantly lower death toll figures.

Separately on Wednesday, Hezbollah said in a statement that while “an Israeli enemy force was trying to encircle the town of Yaroun from the direction of the forest,” Hezbollah fighters managed to either kill or wound all members of the invaders through detonating “a special explosive device.”

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