TEHRAN, Mar. 02 (MNA) – Four Hezbollah Resistance forces were martyred and three others were wounded on Friday in the Israeli regime's air strikes targeting a village in the border region of southern Lebanon.

According to military sources, Israel carried out four air strikes on Ramyah and three on the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Jabal Balat, destroying five houses and damaging 15 others.

The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that the casualties were caused by several Israeli raids on the village of Ramyah in the Bent Jbeil district in southern Lebanon.

Meanwhile, Israel fired about 40 shells on nine towns and villages in southern Lebanon.

For its part, Hezbollah said its forces shot down an Israeli drone in southwest Lebanon.

The military sources told Xinhua that the Lebanese army, in cooperation with UNIFIL peacekeepers, carried out a sweeping operation and found an Israeli drone in the Labouneh area.

The sources said the drone, carrying leaflets, had been transported to one of the Lebanese military centers.

Hezbollah added that its forces on Friday attacked a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Jal al-Alam site and the sites of Ruwaisat al-Alam, al-Manara, al-Baghdadi, Ramim, and Hadab al-Bustan.

MNA/PR