Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks

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Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into ******* in heaviest barrage in weeks

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into ******* on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group’s heaviest barrages in months, in response to

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while negotiators pressed on with cease-***** efforts to halt the

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Some of the rockets reached the Tel Aviv area in the heart of *******.

Meanwhile, an ******** strike on an army center ******* a Lebanese soldier and wounded 18 others in the southwest between Tyre and Naqoura, Lebanon’s military said. The ******** military expressed regret, saying that the strike occurred in an area of combat against Hezbollah and that the military’s operations are directed solely against the militants.

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******** strikes have ******* over 40 Lebanese troops since the start of the war between ******* and Hezbollah, even as Lebanon’s military

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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, condemned the latest strike as an ******** on

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, calling it a “direct, ******* message rejecting all efforts and ongoing contacts” to end the war.

Hezbollah fires rockets after strikes on Beirut

Hezbollah began ******* rockets, missiles and drones into ******* after

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ignited the war there. Hezbollah has portrayed the attacks as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians and ******. Iran supports both armed groups.

******* launched retaliatory airstrikes at Hezbollah, and in September the low-level conflict erupted into all-out war as ******* launched airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon and *******

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The ******** military said about 250 projectiles were fired Sunday, with some intercepted.

*******’s Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people, including a 60-year old man in severe condition from rocket ***** on northern *******, a 23-year-old man who was lightly wounded by a blast in the central city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, and a 70-year-old woman who suffered smoke inhalation from a car that caught ***** there. In Haifa, a rocket hit a residential building that police said was in danger of collapsing.

The Palestine Red Crescent reported 13 injuries it said were caused by an interceptor missile that struck several homes in Tulkarem in the West Bank. It was unclear whether injuries and damage were caused by rockets or interceptors.

Sirens wailed again in central and northern ******* hours later.

******** airstrikes without warning on Saturday

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and wounding 67, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Smoke billowed above Beirut again Sunday with new strikes. *******’s military said it targeted command centers for Hezbollah and its intelligence unit in the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, where the militants have a strong presence.

******** attacks have ******* more than 3,700 people in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry. The fighting

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, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population.

On the ******** side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been ******* by bombardment in northern ******* and in battle following *******’s ground invasion in early October. Around 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country’s north.

EU envoy calls for pressure to reach a truce

The ********* Union’s top diplomat called Sunday for more pressure on ******* and Hezbollah to reach a deal, saying one was “pending with a final agreement from the ******** government.” U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein was in the region last week.

Josep Borrell spoke after meeting with Mikati and Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally who has been mediating with the group. Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate 200 million euros ($208 million) to assist the Lebanese military.

But Borrell later said that he did not “see the ******** government interested clearly in reaching an agreement for a cease-*****” and that it seemed ******* was seeking new conditions. He pointed to *******’s refusal to accept France as a member of the international committee that would oversee the cease-*****’s implementation.

The emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and ******** troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River in accordance with

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that ended the monthlong 2006 war. Lebanese troops would patrol with the presence of U.N. peacekeepers.

One year since the only ********-release deal

With talks for a cease-***** and ******** release deal in Gaza stalled,

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and families of those held marked a year since the war’s only ********-release deal.

“It’s hard to hold on to hope, certainly after so long and as another winter is about to begin,” said Yifat Zailer, cousin of Shiri Bibas, who is held along with her husband and two young sons.

Around 100 hostages are still in Gaza, at least a third believed to be *****. Most of the rest of the 250 who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023, ****** ******* were released in last year’s cease-*****.

Talks for another deal recently had several setbacks, including the ******* of ******** Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who pushed for a deal, and Qatar’s decision to

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. ****** wants ******* to end the war and withdraw all troops from Gaza. ******* has offered only to pause its offensive.

The ************ ****** toll from the war surpassed 44,000 this week, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.

On Sunday, six people were ******* in strikes in central Gaza, according to AP journalists at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

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Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, *******. Associated Press Writer Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed to this report.

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