BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- 
Hezbollah carried out a wave of drone and missile operations against a variety of Israeli targets on Friday that killed at least two Zionists and left two dozen others injured as resistance fighters fought back invading troops, killing at least 11 troops. 
The Israeli military said two people were killed by shrapnel after a Hezbollah missile attack on the town of Majd al-Krum in the Galilee Israel’s Army Radio said at least 20 troops were injured in the attack.
Hezbollah fighters also bombed the occupied city of Safad with a rocket barrage before a squadron of drones attacked the Filon base which houses the headquarters and emergency warehouses of the 36th and 210th Divisions east of the city, hitting their targets accurately, the group said.
Hezbollah targeted two Merkava tanks on the outskirts of town of Odaisseh with two guided missiles, leaving it in flames and its crew killed or injured, it added.
Another Merkava tank was destroyed near the Misgav Am base with a guided missile, killing and wounding its crew.
According to Hezbollah, overall five tanks were destroyed on Friday, four of them in southern Lebanon. This brought the number of Israeli tanks destroyed since the start of the regime’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon two weeks ago to 38, on top of four bulldozers, an armored vehicle, and a personnel carrier. 
Later Friday, Hezbollah fighters targeted four Israeli soldiers in the Wazzani neighborhood in the town of Kfar Kila, killing and wounding them, the group said in a statement. 
Earlier Friday, the resistance force said its fighters targeted the Carmel military base south of Haifa with “a qualitative missile barrage”.
Another Hezbollah strike targeted Israeli forces at the “Habushit” site and a separate rocket barrage hit enemy forces in the Manara settlement.
Amid the mounting strikes, the Israeli army’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi hinted at the possibility of an “end” to the war with Hezbollah.
“In the north, there is a possibility of reaching a sharp end,” he said, adding, “We finished Hezbollah’s senior chain of command in a very thorough way.”
His surprise announcement came after the Zionist military confirmed the deaths of nine soldiers in southern Lebanon.
Later, the Israeli military announced that another three soldiers were killed in fighting on Friday in the northern Gaza Strip. It was an unusually deadly 48 hours for Israeli troops during which at least 13 were confirmed killed in operations against Hamas and Hezbollah by the time we are going to print.
The Israeli military announced that five reserve soldiers were killed and 19 others were wounded, four of them seriously, during fighting in Lebanon on Thursday.
All of the troops killed served with the 8th Armored Brigade’s 89th Battalion, it added, noting that they were hit by a Hezbollah rocket while they were accepting a logistics supply in a southern Lebanese village.

On Thursday, the regime announced that four soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon in an ambush by Hezbollah forces.
Israeli media said the soldiers were from the Carmeli Brigade, which has been fighting as part of the military’s 146th Division.
Israel’s far-right minister Itmar Ben-Gvir said that the death of one of the soldiers named Shlomo Aviad Nayman was “hard news” and a “great loss” for the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, which he hails from.
A total of 762 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the Gaza onslaught, according to the latest figures released by the regime’s military, but the true figure is believed to be higher.