With Israel and Hezbollah locked in the fiercest fighting in decades, many Lebanese have taken refuge in schools, hotels and other shelters.
Israel and Hezbollah
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Hezbollah fires missile at Tel Aviv after heavy Israeli strikes on Lebanon
Hezbollah launched a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv early Wednesday, after Israel carried out strikes on Lebanon that killed hundreds of people and the militants fired rockets across northern Israel.
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Israel’s strikes in Lebanon kill more than 180 people, Lebanese officials say
Fighting is escalated at the Israeli-Lebanese border in one of the deadliest days of nearly a year of conflict in the region.
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Israel fires an airstrike in Lebanon’s capital in the latest fighting with Hezbollah
The attack came hours after Hezbollah fired 140 rockets at northern Israel and follows this week’s deadly explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members.
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Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah
Gold Apollo denied all involvement with the explosive pagers, telling NPR outside its offices in Taiwan that it was a Budapest-based company called BAC Consulting which manufactured the devices.
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Hezbollah pagers explode across Lebanon, causing nearly 3,000 casualties
Lebanese officials say Israel is to blame for the explosions. Hezbollah members had turned to pagers, believing they were more secure than phones. Israel has declined to comment.
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War fears and flight cancellations in Lebanon send travelers and residents scrambling
The U.S. and other governments issued Lebanon travel advisories and some airlines stopped flying there, in anticipation of an escalation of fighting after assassinations in Iran and Beirut.
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A rocket hit Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, after Israel struck a Gaza school
A rocket has hit a sports complex filled with children playing soccer in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights region Saturday afternoon, on the same day that an Israeli strike in Gaza devastated a school building and killed dozens.
