More than 400 Hezbollah fighters have been killed since the Lebanese armed group began a new war with Israel on March 2, Reuters reported, citing its sources.
This is the first total number of Hezbollah fighters killed in Israel's expanding air and ground campaign in Lebanon. The group has issued sporadic statements about a few individual fighters but has not provided an official total.
Since the 2013-2014 war with Israel, Hezbollah has said that around 5,000 people have been killed in total.
The Israeli military has put the group's latest losses higher than its sources, saying this week that it has killed at least 700 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, including hundreds of members of the group's elite Radwan force.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said on Friday that Israeli strikes and ground operations have killed 1,142 people in Lebanon. Among them are 122 children, 83 women and 42 medical personnel. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
The Israeli military said on Friday that a soldier and a combat officer were seriously wounded overnight during operations in Lebanon. The military had previously reported that four of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon.