By Wassim Seif El Din

BEIRUT (AA) — Lebanese Hezbollah group announced Wednesday that it targeted Israeli army soldiers, sites and artillery bunkers in four areas in northern Israel, amid ongoing cross-border airstrikes by Tel Aviv.

The group said it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the settlement of Shtula and artillery bunkers in the south of the Kiryat Shmona settlement with rockets.

Separately, Hezbollah said it attacked an infantry force in the settlement of Misgav Am with rockets and artillery.

In another statement, it said it targeted a group of Israeli soldiers in the Shomera Barracks with a salvo of rockets.

Earlier, Hezbollah had said its fighters clashed with an Israeli infantry force attempting to infiltrate the town of Odaisseh in southern Lebanon, forcing the force to withdraw.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army on Wednesday ordered the residents in 24 towns and villages in southern Lebanon to immediately leave their homes, claiming that Hezbollah fighters and weapons were present in the area.

Since Sept. 23, Israel has launched massive airstrikes against what it calls Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, killing more than 1,073 people and injuring over 2,950 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The top leadership of Hezbollah was killed in the Israeli assaults, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed more than 41,600 people, most of them women and children, following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last October.

The international community has warned that Israeli attacks in Lebanon could escalate the Gaza conflict into a wider regional war