A Lebanese security source said five people including two Hezbollah fighters were killed on Wednesday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, with a Palestinian group reporting three fatalities among its ranks. Israel and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have stepped up cross-border exchanges that have been ongoing following Israel’s onslaught on Gaza on 7 October. According to the Lebanese security source, “two Hezbollah fighters” were killed in an Israeli air strike on the border town of Adaisseh. Hezbollah later said two of its fighters had been “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”, the phrase it us…