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At least two people have been killed and 76 injured in a series of Israeli air strikes in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday. Several buildings were hit in the massive attack in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the south of the city. The Israeli military said the target of its strike was Hezbollah’s central headquarters located "under residential buildings". The attack that shook the Lebanese capital and sent thick clouds of smoke over the city was targeted at Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, according to Israeli and US media reports. However, it was too early to say if Nasrallah was hit in the attack, an Israeli official told news agency Reuters. The news outlet Axios cited an Israeli source as saying that the Israeli military was checking if Nasrallah was hit in the strike. However,...

NEW DELHI: Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant expressed concern to US defense secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the opportunity for a peaceful resolution to the impasse with the Iranian-supported group in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, was diminishing.Yoav Gallant told defense secretary Lloyd Austin that “the possibility for an agreed framework in the northern arena is running out as Hezbollah continues to “tie itself” to Hamas.Gallant said that as long as Hezbollah maintained its alliance with the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been involved in a nearly year-long conflict, the situation's “trajectory is clear.”Gallant told Austin that “in any possible scenario, Israel’s defense establishment will continue to operate with the aim of dismantling Hamas and en...

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Massive Air Strikes Hit Beirut As Israel Targets Hezbollah Leader

‘Trajectory is clear’: Israeli defense minister signals declining hope for peaceful resolution with Hezbollah – Times of India