Two soldiers and an officer of the Golani Brigade were killed overnight Friday by an anti-tank rocket fired by Hizbullah, the army said.
The soldiers were identified as First Sergeant Daniel Shiran, 20, of Haifa, and First Sergeant Omri Elmakis, 20, of Ramle.
An IDF officer was seriously wounded and another soldier was lightly injured in the incident.
Golani troops were attacked during an operation in the southern Lebanese village of Markhaba. The army said that at least seven terrorists were killed in the village and weapon caches were found. A car driven by backup Hizbullah gunmen was destroyed.
An Israeli air strike on a parking lot used by trucks and buses near Lebanon's border with Syria in the eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday killed or wounded 25 civilians, security sources said.
Soldiers in Lebanon (Photo: Reuters)
They said warplanes bombarded the parking near the village of Qaa in the northern tip of the Bekaa close to a Lebanese customs point on the border.
Earlier, the army said that two Israeli soldiers were wounded - one moderately and another lightly - in fresh clashes with Hizbullah in the southern Lebanese village of al-Taybeh. One of the soldiers was an officer.
Soldiers conducting searches in the village came under fire and an anti-tank missile was fired in their direction. The soldiers were airlifted to the Rambam hospital in Haifa.
IDF ground troops operating in the southwestern Lebanon killed four Hizbullah terrorists in the village of Shama.
In the Lebanese village of Mankhala a Hizbullah terrorist was killed and another was injured.
First published: 15:04, 08.04.6