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Israel reportedly carries out dozens of strikes in Lebanon in ‘major intensification’ – live
Israel Defense Forces says it hit about 30 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other infrastructure in airstrikes on Lebanon
In our First Edition newsletter today, my colleague Heather Stewart has spoken to our defence and security editor Dan Sabbagh. Here is a snippet:
Targeting Hezbollah directly is not new: Benjamin Netanyahu’s government claimed to have killed a Hezbollah leader in an airstrike on Beirut in July, for example. But the widespread and indiscriminate nature of Tuesday’s blasts represented a significant escalation.
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