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Several people injured as Hezbollah launches 165 rockets at Israel

Sirens sounded across Israel and multiple people were injured on Sunday in rocket strikes from Lebanon, the Israeli military said, as the Lebanese Army recorded another fatality from an Israeli attack. It said roughly 165 rockets were fired by the Iran-aligned Hezbollah militia, forcing civilians to shelter across central and northern Israel, including in Tel […]

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Israel unearths Hezbollah’s web of tunnels in southern Lebanon

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas’ vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. Scarred by Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in GazaIsrael says it […]

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Israel’s long animosity toward U.N. playing out in Lebanon

BEIRUT — The United Nations was instrumental in the creation and recognition of the state of Israel some seventy-six years ago. But virtually ever since, animosity between the preeminent global body and the tiny Middle Eastern country has steadily grown, escalating now as U.N. forces have been drawn into Israel’s attacks in southern Lebanon. At least […]

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Hezbollah fighting Israeli troops near Lebanon’s Ramya village; third UN peacekeeper wounded

By Amina Ismail and Ahmed Tolba BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) -Hezbollah said on Sunday it was fighting Israeli forces trying to infiltrate Ramya village in southern Lebanon, as a third U.N. peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Lebanese group. Israeli strikes have shook the peacekeepers’ main base in southern Lebanon, prompting U.N. Secretary-General […]