BEIRUT 

The Lebanese group Hezbollah on Monday mourned three more fighters who were killed in clashes with the Israeli army on the border areas between them. 

The Lebanese official news agency NNA said the three were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon.

The statement did not specify what the fighters were tasked with when being targeted but said they were killed "on the road to Jerusalem," in reference to the Hezbollah fight in support of the Palestinian resistance facing Israel’s devastating onslaught in Gaza.

The death toll of the Hezbollah fighters killed by the Israeli forces since Oct. 8 has risen to 137, according to previous statements by the group.

The toll of Lebanese civilians killed by the Israeli army in the same period stands at 28, including three journalists and three children.

Lebanese attacks on Israeli areas have left five Israeli civilians and nine soldiers killed, according to statements by the Israeli army.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar​​​​​​​