What to know about the growing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — In recent weeks, there has been a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. First came exploding pagers and walkie-talkies that maimed Hezbollah fighters and civilians around Lebanon and were blamed on Israel. Hezbollah’s leader vowed to retaliate. Since then, both sides have fired dozens of rockets across the border on a daily basis. Lebanon reports that more than 560 Lebanese were killed on Monday alone, and thousands of people have fled areas of southern Lebanon where Hezbollah has a presence. The Israeli military claimed Thursday that it killed a Hezbollah drone commander in an airstrike on an apartment building in the Beirut suburbs.
