PARIS: Ongoing fighting, as Israel invades southern Lebanon, has killed UN peacekeepers and Israeli soldiers, officials said Tuesday. 

Three United Nations peacekeepers from Indonesia were killed in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon.

The UN Security Council is set to discuss the situation after three UN peacekeepers were killed in southern Lebanon in less than 24 hours, although it’s not clear who was responsible.

Two peacekeepers were killed on Monday after an explosion from an unknown origin destroyed their vehicle near Bani Hayyan in south Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL said in a statement. Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast.

Another Indonesian soldier was killed overnight Sunday into Monday when a projectile exploded near one of the group’s positions close to the southern Lebanese village of Adchit al-Qusayr. Another peacekeeper was critically injured at the time.

Israel says it is trying to push Hezbollah militants, who have fired rockets and drones across the border, out of southern Lebanon in a campaign that Israeli officials suggest could become a prolonged occupation.

Israel military says four soldiers killed in south Lebanon

Israel said early Tuesday that another four of its soldiers had been killed in the offensive.

A military statement named three soldiers from the same battalion who “fell during combat,” and a separate statement said another soldier whose name had not yet been cleared for publication had died in the same incident.

Another soldier was severely wounded and a reservist moderately wounded, according to the second statement.