The Israeli military said on Saturday that it killed several Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon and that an Israeli soldier was injured there despite a ceasefire.
The military said it identified several Hezbollah fighters overnight inside what Israel has labelled a "security zone" in southern Lebanon which its forces occupy.
"Following the identification, the soldiers struck the terrorists and eliminated them in order to remove the threat," the military said in a statement.
Israeli forces "will continue to operate to remove any threat to its soldiers and will not allow the Hezbollah terrorist organization to harm Israeli civilians,” it said.
An Israeli soldier was moderately injured, the military said earlier, and was evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
When contacted by AFP journalists in Beirut, Hezbollah did not comment. The Iranian-backed militant group has not claimed any attacks since June 20.
A US-sponsored framework agreement signed by Lebanon and Israel in late June aims to end hostilities, with Lebanon's army to disarm Hezbollah and the Israeli military to withdraw from "pilot zones" inside Lebanon where Lebanese forces will subsequently deploy.
Hezbollah has repeatedly rejected the deal and refuses to disarm, while there is no timetable for Israel's full withdrawal.
The deal came more than three months after Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the wider Middle East war with rocket fire at Israel in support of Tehran on March 2, triggering major Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion.
While violence has declined since the signing of a preliminary US-Iran deal in June and the Lebanon-Israel agreement, Lebanon continues to report intermittent Israeli strikes and artillery shelling on the south.
Lebanon's army last week condemned ongoing Israeli military activities that it said were preventing its full deployment under the framework deal.
Since the war between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in early March, Israel's military has reported 38 soldiers and one civilian contractor killed.
