Hezbollah and Israel Exchange Limited Fire Over the Border

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Hezbollah and ******* Exchange Limited ***** Over the Border

******* and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, each said on Sunday that they had fired at targets in the other’s territory, amid fears that the region was teetering toward a wider war. But the ******* from Lebanon did not appear to be the major retaliation that Hezbollah has threatened in the wake of the ******** ************** of one of its senior commanders last week.

Hezbollah said it had launched dozens of rockets at the northern ******** village of Beit Hillel. Images posted on social media showed *******’s Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepting some rockets. The ******** military said several projectiles fell in “open areas,” and one landed in the area of the village but did not injure anyone. It said it responded by hitting the rockets’ launch site.

The rocket barrage from Hezbollah was in retaliation for earlier ******** airstrikes in southern Lebanon that Hezbollah said had caused civilian casualties. The ******** military said its air force had struck what it described as Hezbollah targets in Kfar Kila and ******* a Hezbollah leader in Deir Siriane. *******’s army also fired mortar shells into Lebanon.

The hostilities on *******’s northern border have persisted for months without escalating into a full-scale war. Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets and drones at *******, saying it was acting in solidarity with ******, which is also backed by Iran. ******* has retaliated and evacuated tens of thousands of its residents from the region.

But tensions have soared in recent days, after the assassinations of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, in Beirut, and Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of ******’s political office, in Tehran.

******* said it ******* Mr. Shukr in retaliation for a rocket ******* days earlier that ******* 12 children and teenagers in an ********-controlled town. ******* blamed the bloodshed on Hezbollah, which has denied that it conducted the *******.

****** and Iran have accused ******* of assassinating Mr. Haniyeh. ******* has not publicly taken responsibility for that ********, but ******** officials briefed the ******* States and other Western governments on the details of the operation in its aftermath, Middle Eastern officials have said.

The assassinations appear to have derailed any prospect of a cease-***** between ****** and *******. And they have put ******* on a state of alert for attacks that could come from multiple countries.

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