BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group claimed responsibility Monday for a strike that Zionist entity said wounded four soldiers in the country’s north, the latest cross-border fire in more than seven months of clashes.

Hezbollah fighters fired “a guided missile” at a Zionist entity’s Merkava tank across the border on Monday morning, destroying it “after closely monitoring the enemy’s movements,” the group said in a statement. The Zionist entity army said “two anti-tank missiles” crossed from Lebanon into the area of Yiftah, a kibbutz community less than two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the border.

The missiles wounded four Zionist entity soldiers, the army said, one of them moderately and the rest lightly. Earlier, Monday Hezbollah said it launched “a swarm of explosive drones” targeting tents and “sleeping quarters” for a Zionist entity artillery battalion. The Zionist entity army said the attack caused no casualties and reported that one drone that crossed from Lebanon fell in a different area. At least 410 people have been killed in Lebanon in months of cross-border violence, mostly militants but also including 79 civilians, according to an AFP tally.