REUTERS, Beirut

Hezbollah said yesterday its fighters had pushed back advancing Israeli troops in clashes along the length of the border, a day after Israel said it had killed two successors to the Lebanese movement’s slain leader.

The Iran-backed group said it had fired several rocket salvos at Israeli troops near the village of Labbouneh in the western part of the border area, close to the Mediterranean coast, and had managed to push them back.

Israeli air defences intercepted two projectiles fired from Lebanon, setting off sirens around Caesarea, south of Haifa. Israeli ambulance workers said two people were killed in strikes on Kiryat Shmona near the border and at least six were wounded in Haifa.

Israel also renewed bombing of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, and said it had killed a figure responsible for budgeting and logistics for

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