File photo: Israeli soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border. (Associated Press)
Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah claimed responsibility today for an attack against a military convoy in an Israeli-occupied border area.
"At 11:25 (0925 GMT) this morning, the Quneitra martyrs of the Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah) targeted an Israeli military convoy in the Shebaa Farms composed of several vehicles which was transporting several Zionist soldiers and officers," Hezbollah said in a statement broadcast on the group's Al-Manar television channel.
"There were several casualties in the enemy's ranks," it said. Al-Manar said Hezbollah targeted nine Israeli military vehicles, and that it had killed "a large number" of troops.
On January 18, six Hezbollah fighters and a member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Syrian-held Golan Heights.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is set to give his first speech since that attack on Friday.