Lebanon says over 1,000 killed, Israel says 500 of them Hezbollah fighters

Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani said Thursday that Israel has killed 500 Hezbollah fighters in its current war against the group, among them 200 from the elite Radwan unit. He gave no further evidence.

The claim came as the death toll in Lebanon topped 1,000.

The Lebanese health ministry said that among 1,001 killed were 118 children and 79 women, and 2,584 people were wounded.

More than one million people in Lebanon have been displaced in the intense fighting, as Israel continues its daily strikes across large swaths of southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Hezbollah has fired rockets and drones into northern Israel while its militants clashed in southern Lebanon with Israeli ground troops.