Israel’s military has said an anti-tank missile fired by the Lebanese Hezbollah group wounded nine soldiers as they rescued a civilian who was injured in another cross-border strike, AFP reports.

One of the soldiers was in “serious condition”, the army said, after the group was hit when rescuing a civilian injured by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon amid the Gaza conflict.

That missile had hit a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Iqrit, the army had said in an earlier statement.

The hilltop church is located in Iqrit, an abandoned Palestinian Christian village whose people were forced to leave during the 1948 war and the creation of Israel.

The army accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah of constant firing at Israeli “civilian and religious sites”.

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