A drone attack launched by Hezbollah on a military base in northern Israel killed four Israeli soldiers on Sunday and severely wounded seven more - the deadliest strike by the group since Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon two weeks ago.

The Israeli military said it “struck a target belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization" and that it would look into reports of civilian deaths.

At least 21 people have been killed and eight others injured in a rare Israeli air strike in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says.

The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday it had received reports that most of the 22 victims of an Israeli air strike on a building in northern Lebanon were women and children.

Lebanon's health ministry said at least 21 people died Monday in a rare Israeli strike on a northern Christian-majority village, far from Hezbollah strongholds, with DNA tests being conducted to identify body parts.

Air strike kills at least 18 and flattens buildings in Zgharta district in northern Lebanon, an area where Hezbollah has little to no presence

The UN called Tuesday for a “prompt, independent and thorough investigation” into an Israeli strike in the northern Lebanese village of Aito which it said had killed 22 people. “What we’re hearing is that amongst the 22 people who were who were killed were 12 women and two children,