In both conflicts, Israel and Hezbollah were exchanging regular but lower-level fire just like now, before it escalated into a full-scale war. Both times, Israel thought it would teach. Israel ’s counterattack came more than three weeks after Iran launched over 180 ballistic missiles — most of which were shot down — on Oct. 1 to avenge the killings of two top Hezbollah and. Escalation could lead to significant casualties for both Hezbollah and the Israeli military, put Israeli civilians throughout the country at risk, lead to hundreds and perhaps thousands of Lebanese civilian casualties, and spread to Iran , Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and other countries. Three Lebanese fighters were killed in those Israeli attacks, Hezbollah said. The cross-border fire on Sunday morning marked a significant escalation after nearly 11 months of hostilities between. The various militant groups by Iran — Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, militias in Syria and Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen—share the elimination of the Jewish state as their. Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah (backed by Iran ) have been trading fire across their shared border for the past nine months. If this conflict escalates to all-out war , it. After last week’s audacious move by Israel to detonate booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members, injuring more than 3000 people and killing about 40, the hostilities. A pair of high-profile assassinations has pushed the Middle East closer to the brink of a wider regional war and upended high-stakes cease-fire and hostage negotiations over the war in Gaza.
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