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Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah exchange fire as region teeters on brink of wider war
Mourners carry a Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank village of Aqaaba, August 6, 2024
Meanwhile, a top Russian general is killed in car bomb attack outside his flat near Moscow
ISRAEL bombed the village of Mayfadoun in southern Lebanon today, killing five people it said were Hezbollah fighters as cross-border conflict escalated.
Hezbollah fired what it termed a “swarm of drones” against an Israeli army base 12 miles inside Israel, wounding five Israelis, one critically.
Fears Israel may extend its current invasion of Gaza to a new front in Lebanon have intensified since it bombed the Lebanese capital Beirut last week, killing senior Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr. The same day it assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and both Iran and Hezbollah have vowed revenge.
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