Iran urges OIC to unite against Israel, strike likely to occur after Wednesday's meeting

Hezbollah on Monday launched a drone strike on northern Israel injuring two Israeli troops.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah in a statement said it carried out the targeted attack on a military base in northern Israel after the assassination of its senior commander Fouad Shukur in Beirut last week.

The strike comes amid fears of a regional escalation in the Middle East after Shukur's assassination and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh's death.    

Against the backdrop of the Gaza war, Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes.

Though so far the attacks prevailed in the border areas, with the recent assassinations it turned into a wider conflict.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard warned Israel saying that it was digging its own grave with its actions against Hamas.

Meanwhile, Israel has returned around 80 bodies to the Gaza Strip.

The identities of the deceased and the cause of death were not immediately known.