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Calm after the storm: Clashes level off after violent days on Lebanon-Israel border

Hezbollah targeted Friday several Israeli posts while the Israeli army bombed several towns in south Lebanon.

Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of al-Hebbarieh and Rashaya al-Fokhar and warplanes raided the southern border town of Markaba injuring one person and the al-Rihan mountain in Iqlim al-Tuffah far away from the border.

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Geagea is against Hezbollah but says in case of war he'd be on Lebanon's side

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has again criticized Hezbollah for starting a war with Israel, at the expense of the Lebanese.

"There are 22 Arab states, why is Lebanon alone paying the price of what is happening in the region," Geagea asked in a televised interview on Thursday evening, adding that Hezbollah is hijacking the state's decisions. "Hezbollah is in Lebanon but its heart is with Iran," Geagea charged.

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Nasrallah meets Hamas delegation over Gaza war

Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met Friday with a delegation from Hamas headed by Khalil al Hayyeh.

Nasrallah and the delegation discussed the latest developments in Gaza and on the other "support fronts" in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, a Hezbollah statement said.

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Reports: Hochstein and Le Drian agree to prepare joint paper

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein’s talks in Paris on Wednesday with French special envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian tackled “the situation in Lebanon in terms of the border war between Israel and Hezbollah and the stalled presidential file,” a media report said.

“The two mediators agreed on the continuation of coordination and the exchange of information regarding the situation in Lebanon,” al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Thursday.

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2 civilians injured, 1 fighter killed in Israeli response to Hezbollah rocket barrage

The Israeli military said Thursday its forces were "striking launch posts in southern Lebanon" after "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory".

It said that most were intercepted by air defense systems but that "fires broke out in a number of areas in northern Israel" following the attacks.

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Rescued from wildlife trade in Lebanon, lion cub Freya is now safe in South Africa

Freya, a 6-month-old lion cub rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon, poked a curious nose out of her transport crate and sniffed the air. Satisfied, she took her first cautious steps in her new forever home in a sanctuary in South Africa.

Freya's relocation to the Drakenstein Lion Park is only a partial success story.

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Hezbollah sends explosive drones, rocket barrage at Israel in biggest attack ever

Hezbollah said it launched "more than 200" rockets and a salvo of "explosive drones" at Israeli military positions Thursday, in one of its largest barrages, in response to a strike that killed a senior commander of the Iran-backed group.

A Hezbollah statement said that "as part of the response to the... assassination carried out by the enemy" in southern Lebanon's Tyre area on Wednesday, its fighters fired "more than 200 rockets of various types" at five Israeli bases across the border including in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

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Fires: Most visible sign of Lebanon-Israel conflict

With cease-fire talks faltering in Gaza and no clear offramp for the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border, the daily exchanges of strikes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces have sparked fires that are tearing through forests and farmland on both sides of the frontline.

The blazes — exacerbated by supply shortages and security concerns — have consumed thousands of hectares of land in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, becoming one of the most visible signs of the escalating conflict.

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Iraqi armed groups say ready to fight Israel if Lebanon war breaks out

As war rages in Gaza and threatens to spread to Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups warn they are ready to enter the fray against Israel and the United States.

A field commander of the so-called Islamic Resistance in Iraq said there would be "escalation for escalation" in the event of a full-scale war in Lebanon.

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Hezbollah rains rockets on Israeli bases after another top commander assassinated

Hezbollah said it fired more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions on Wednesday in retaliation for a strike that killed a senior commander in south Lebanon, the movement's second such loss in recent weeks.

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