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Israel started a sequence of assaults towards the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with pagers and walkie talkies that exploded. They then launched airstrikes concentrating on the group’s management. One strike killed Hezbollah’s chief of over thirty years, Hassan Nasrallah. The assaults are an effort to forestall Hezbollah from persevering with to fireside rockets at northern Israel, which it has been doing for the reason that struggle in Gaza started. Israel’s airstrikes are persevering with to widen and their army is massing on the border, pointing to a doable floor invasion.
We’ll hear from our correspondent in Beirut in regards to the feeling on the bottom there. We additionally hear about whether or not and the way Iran may reply. Iran had been arming Hezbollah to counter Israel, and the weakening of the group is a blow to an necessary proxy of Iran’s.
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