A woman holds her cat in front of a destroyed building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. Photo: AP
Israel said yesterday eight of its soldiers were killed in combat in south Lebanon as its forces thrust into its northern neighbour in a campaign against the Hezbollah armed group.
The losses were the deadliest suffered by the Israeli military on the Lebanon front in the past year of border-area clashes between Israel and its Iranian-backed Lebanese foe.
