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A man inspects a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. An Israeli airstrike hit Hezbollah's stronghold south of Beirut Tuesday evening causing damage, a Hezbollah official and the group's TV station said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah commander claimed killed by Israel was blamed by U.S. for 1983 Marine bombing

By Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - A boy walks past bicycles left next to a soccer pitch that was hit by a rocket, killing 12 children and teenagers, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Two days after the attack questions remain about why it happened and who is responsible. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

A bloody field, mangled scooters. Clues emerge from strike that killed 12 children in Golan Heights

By Julia Frankel and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Hezbollah and Israel illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

War of attrition: U.S. can deter Hezbollah by showing support for Israel

By David Daoud

A youth from the Druze minority weeps over a makeshift memorial for 12 children and teens killed in a rocket strike on a soccer field, in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Hezbollah attack on Israel: Who are the Druze that were killed and why it matters

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

A youth from the Druze minority weeps over a makeshift memorial for 12 children and teens killed in a rocket strike on a soccer field, in the village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Netanyahu vows retaliation against Hezbollah after weekend strike as U.S. warns against escalation

By Leo Correa and Alon Bernstein - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier jumps from the top of a tank in an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Biden administration says there won’t be all-out war in the Middle East

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Mourners from the Druze minority surround the bodies of some of the 12 children and teens killed in a rocket strike at a soccer field, in the village of Majdal Shams at the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, July 28, 2024. A rocket strike at a soccer field in the village has killed at least 12 children and teens. It's the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country's northern border since the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A strike from Lebanon killed 12 youths. Could that spark war between Israel and Hezbollah?

By Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A police officer stands outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid Wednesday, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Germany carries out raids and bans a group accused of links to Iran and support for Hezbollah

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

Press agency photographer Christina Assi arrives for the Olympic torch relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Vincennes, outside Paris, France. Assi was struck by a tank shell on Oct. 13, 2023 while reporting clashes between the Israeli army and armed groups in southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

A Lebanese photojournalist, wounded in Israeli strike, carries Olympic torch to honor journalists

By Lujain Jo and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Iraqi Shiites mark the month of Muharram in Karbala, Iraq, on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Muharram commemorates the death of Prophet Muhammed's grandson, Hussein Ibn Ali, who was killed during the Battle of Karbala on the tenth day of Muharram, known as the Day of Ashoura. ( (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Shiite Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq commemorate Ashoura, marking the death of Imam Hussein

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, gives an address while accompanied by his bodyguard Yasser Nemr Qranbish, during a rally to mark the sixth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after an 18-year occupation, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, on May 25, 2006. An Israeli strike in Syria Tuesday July 9, 2024 killed Qranbish, a former personal bodyguard of Hezbollah leader, an official with the Lebanese militant group said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Israeli strike in Syria kills a former bodyguard of Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

An Israeli flag flutters next to a fire burning in an area near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel in Safed, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Scores of rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, hours after Israeli airstrikes killed four officials from the militant Hezbollah group including a senior military commander. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Israel’s modern ‘rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air’

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

FILE - Sailors and military service personnel arrive on the USS Wasp amphibious assault ship on the Hudson River during fleet week, May 24, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, FIle)

U.S. shifts assault ship to the Mediterranean to deter an escalation of the Israel-Lebanon conflict

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

FILE - Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, particularly as cease-fire negotiations have faltered. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

With another setback for cease-fire talks, worries of full-scale war for Israel and Lebanon escalate

By Abby Sewell and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

File - Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaking via a video link, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have recently ratcheted up their threats of an all-out war. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel last week that if it launches an offensive in Lebanon, his group has new weapons and capabilities it can use against Israeli forces and cities, unlike during their previous wars. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

What is Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed group that could go to all-out war against Israel?

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are offering to come to Lebanon to join the militant Hezbollah group in its fight with Israel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel

By Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters watch a speech given by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on a screen during a ceremony to commemorate the death of senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, 55, who was killed last week by an Israeli strike in south Lebanon, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group warns archenemy Israel against wider war

By Kareem Chehayeb and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

An Israeli firefighter works to extinguish a fire burning in an area near the community of Ramot Naftali, by the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The Israeli military said Tuesday that six soldiers were lightly injured in a brush fire in the country's north that was sparked by fighting with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel weighs a two-front war as Hezbollah escalates attacks

By Seth J. Frantzman - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - The fence of an Israeli military position is seen damaged after Hezbollah targeted it by rockets, on an occupied hill of Kfar Chouba village, southeast Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group is introducing new tactics and weapons against Israel as the war in Gaza drags on and Israeli troops enter parts of the southern city of Rafah. In mid-May 2024, Hezbollah has used a drone equipped with missiles to attack an Israeli post as well as an explosive drone to hit its deepest target so far since the clashes began seven months ago. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Students from the Lebanese American University (LAU) burn a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest inside their university campus to demand a ceasefire and show support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Scores of students held pro-Palestinian protests at some of the largest universities in Beirut Tuesday expressing anger over the rising deaths during the Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli strike kills 4 civilians in southern Lebanon, state media says

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press