Israeli army reservists died in a rocket attack on Kfar Giladi

The attacks on Sunday, the 26th day of the Israeli offensive, left nine civilians and a Palestinian fighter dead and 10 other people wounded in Lebanon, police said.

And in Israel at least 10 people have been killed in Hezbollah's deadliest rocket attack so far since fighting began on July 12.

Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at towns across northern Israel, including one rocket which landed near the entrance to the communal farm of Kfar Giladi.

Israeli Channel Two television reported that nine army reservists were among the dead.

Israel has continued its air strikes on southern Lebanon

Fourteen people were wounded, including four who are in a serious condition, rescue officials said.

The mayor of Kiryat Shmona, Haim Barvivai, said other rockets landed around the Israeli border town damaging a synagogue and starting a series of fires.

Forty-two Israelis have been killed in rocket attacks on the north of the country.

Hezbollah attacks

Hezbollah said it had also attacked Israeli forces in south Lebanon on Sunday, inflicting several casualties. There was no immediate word from the army on Israeli casualties in the fighting. 

Hezbollah fighters targeted Israeli military vehicles in Wadi Honeen on the border and an armoured Israeli unit trying to advance towards Adayseh village, killing or wounding several soldiers, the group said. Two tanks and two bulldozers were reportedly destroyed.
   
Israeli troops trying to advance north near Biyada village were also attacked and two tanks damaged, it said.   

Eight civilians were killed as Israel continued air strikes across south Lebanon, security sources and witnesses said. Artillery on the Israeli side of the border pounded towns and villages.

Five died when Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the southern Lebanese village of Ansar and three were killed in Naqoura, on the Mediterranean coast side of Lebanon's border with Israel.

Lebanon says more than 900 people, mostly civilians, have been killed by Israeli attacks.

Meanwhile, Israel said that one of the Hezbollah fighters involved in the raid during which two soldiers were captured has been seized in Lebanon.

"We can confirm that one of the Hezbollah we have captured and interrogated was involved in the kidnapping of our soldiers," an army spokeswoman said.

The raid led to Israel's offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

Israel said it seized several Hezbollah members during a raid on the town of Baalbek last week. Hezbollah denied those taken were part of the group.

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