Eight Israeli soldiers were killed Wednesday in a series of clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli military. Five members of a commando unit were killed and five others were seriously wounded in a gun fight with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Lebanon village,

Southern Lebanon has turned into a battlefield as Israel has carried out over 200 aerial strikes in the last 24 hours. In a report, India Today's Ashraf Wani highlighted the presence of the US Navy's warships in the Mediterranean Sea given the Israeli strikes.