Israeli tanks on Wednesday shelled areas of southeastern Lebanon, killing a soldier from the international forces working in the country’s south.

Israeli tanks on Wednesday shelled areas of southeastern Lebanon, killing a soldier from the international forces working in the country’s south.

Two sources reported that more than a dozen shells had been fired on Lebanese border villages and that Israeli warplanes were flying over the area.

"At least 15 shells have been fired against five villages in the south," one security source said, adding that the village of Majidiyeh was hardest hit.

Al-Manar correspondent reported that a soldiers from the Spanish battalion of the UNIFIL force working in Lebanon’s south was killed in the shelling.

Media reports initially said that the Spanish soldier was injured.

Earlier on Wednesday, a group of Hezbollah targeted an Israeli convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms, leaving large number of Israeli soldiers.

Hezbollah’s operation is widely seen as retaliation for the Israeli raid that killed six Hezbollah fighters in Syrian Golan town of Quneitra.