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Hezbollah said on Thursday evening that its fighters had “repelled failed attempts” by Israeli commandos to advance into some border villages during the day.

Hezbollah said its fighters had fired ani-tank missiles at Israeli commandos, killing and wounding dozens during clashes early on Wednesday in one border village.

US media reported earlier that small teams of Israeli commandos had been mounting brief raids across the border.

The large strike Friday in the heart of the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut felled a senior top commander, 15 elite commandos and more than twice that number of residents.

After that, American commandos stayed well behind the front lines, working from command centers to help Nigerien officers grapple with intelligence, logistics, artillery and other aspects of big operations.