The death toll in the latest round of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon has surpassed 3,000, Lebanon’s health ministry said Monday.

The ministry said the toll is now 3,020 in the fighting that was reduced — but not stopped — by a fragile, US-brokered ceasefire. Officials did not say how many of those killed were combatants, but noted that the toll includes 292 women and 211 children.

Many Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in the war are not included in the health ministry death toll, sources familiar with Hezbollah’s casualty numbers have said.

Reuters reported on May 4 that several thousand Hezbollah fighters were killed in the war, citing casualty estimates from within the group. The Hezbollah media office said at the time that the figure was false.

Twenty IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor were killed in southern Lebanon during the fighting, according to Israeli authorities. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed by Israeli artillery shelling in the north.

Fighting has continued despite the ceasefire, though at a lower intensity than before.

The IDF said Monday that a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was killed in an airstrike in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley the night before.

Wael Mahmoud Abd al-Halim, who served as the commander of Islamic Jihad in the Beqaa region, was targeted on the outskirts of the city of Baalbek. Lebanese media reported that Halim’s 17-year-old daughter was killed alongside him.

The IDF said Halim led efforts to integrate Islamic Jihad operatives into “combat operations alongside Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon,” and advanced other attacks on troops in recent weeks.

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