Israel bracing for attack after assassinations in Beirut and Tehran

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******* bracing for ******* after assassinations in Beirut and Tehran

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a Cabinet meeting at the Kirya, which houses the ******** Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv, ******* on December 17, 2023. 

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TEL AVIV — ******* is bracing for a potential multiday ******* by Iran and its ally Hezbollah following the 

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 last week, an ******** official told NBC News.

The official said ******* fears waves of missiles and drones could be fired over several days in response to the ******** of ****** political leader 

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 and Hezbollah 

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.

“They’ll just try to wear us out,” the official said.

This tension marks yet another escalation in the Middle East during the 

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, characterized by a series of heightened stress points amid worries that an 

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 is on the horizon.

******* ******* Shukr in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut last Tuesday. The strike in the largely Shia neighborhood also ******* three civilians, including two children, and injured 74 others, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

*******’s military blamed Shukr for an ******* in the ********-controlled Golan Heights that ******* 12 children, saying there was no price too high for the “blood of our people.” Hezbollah denied responsibility for that *******.

Hours later, news broke that Haniyeh was ******* in Tehran in the early hours Wednesday morning. Haniyeh was in Iran to attend the inauguration of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

President Joe Biden spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the day after Haniyeh’s **************. The president has said publicly that the ******** was not helpful to U.S. efforts to reach a cease-***** in Gaza. The call was “tense,” according to the ******** official.

“There is strong U.S. pressure to reach a cease-*****,” the official said. “Biden wants it to happen during his time in office.”

******** negotiators were in Cairo on Saturday for continuing negotiations but left without a breakthrough, the official said.

Iranian officials have vowed 

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, though the country has not publicly taken responsibility for Haniyeh’s **************. Hezbollah’s leader also told his followers that ******* would hurt for the attacks.

When Iran 

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 — in response to the ******** of its embassy in Damascus — it fired 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones in tight volleys so the different projectiles would reach ******* simultaneously. The vast majority were intercepted by ******** and U.S. forces, while Hezbollah largely stayed out of the ******.

This time, the ******** official said the attacks could come over several days, with Hezbollah attacking ******* from the north while Iran’s longer-range weapons are fired from the east.

It would mark the second time that Iran has made a direct ******* on ******* this year, a rare head-on ******** for a regime often believed to be acting through its proxies in the region.

Diplomats have been working to avoid a larger regional war in the Middle East 

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 in which 1,200 were ******* and some 250 kidnapped. But those efforts have not stopped Hezbollah and the Houthis, two Iran-backed militias, from escalating attacks on ******* in what its groups describe as support for the ************ cause.

Meanwhile the 

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, with the latest estimates from officials in the enclave nearing 40,000 *****.

Family members of hostages who remain in Gaza have pleaded with Netanyahu to secure a deal that would see their loved ones brought home. Some of the ******** family members were 

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 for protesting during the prime minister’s address to Congress during a visit to the U.S.

Raf Sanchez reported from Tel Aviv. Doha Madani report from New York City.

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