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Israeli troops Thursday resumed their search for possible Hezbollah tunnels, a day after Hezbollah carried out a revenge border attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, the Jerusalem Post said, according to The Daily Star.

The Israeli military began drilling again near the northern community of Zar'it, which is situated close to the Lebanese border. They had started the search Wednesday morning but suspended it due to the attack.

The Post quoted military sources as saying that the search was being carried out in response to a request by local residents to rule out the possibility of Hezbollah attacks in the area.

According to the office of the Israeli Army spokesperson, the military increased the number of troops along the border Thursday.

The report said Israeli residents were told to return to routine, with analysts predicting that neither Israel nor Hezbollah were interested in a full-scale escalation.

Hezbollah carried out an attack Wednesday in revenge for the killing of six party members and an Iranian general in an Israeli airstrike in Qunaitra in Syria’s Golan Heights Jan. 18.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded when Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile salvo at a military convoy in the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms in south Lebanon.

Israel responded to the Hezbollah shelling with "combined aerial and ground strikes" on southern Lebanon.