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Hadi Sharqawi, 24, a Lebanese student in Italy, who had just landed at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport, embraces his mother who is about to travel to Iraq to visit Shiite Muslim holy places, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Fears of an escalation in the simmering conflict between Hezbollah and Israel have prompted some airlines to cancel flights to Lebanon, but business appeared to be proceeding as usual Tuesday at the Beirut airport, where many travelers greeted the warnings with a shrug. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Despite escalating tension between Israel and Hezbollah, it’s business as usual at Beirut airport

By Fay Abuelgasim and Abby Sewell - 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

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

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

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

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

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 - 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

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

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

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

U.S.-built pier in Gaza up and running again after setbacks

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

Tiffany Trump, Michael Boulos and Lara Trump return from a break at Manhattan Criminal Court, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool)

What to know about Trump’s outreach with Arab Americans led by his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib, right, shakes hands with Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Micheal Martin after their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Ireland’s top diplomat concerned over slow pace of justice in peacekeeper’s killing in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil - Associated Press

A Syrian refugee woman carries her child as she prepares to go back home to Syria as part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil and Kareem Chehayeb - 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

FILE - Migrants aboard a Cyprus marine police boat as they are brought to harbour after being rescued from their own vessel off the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast, at Protaras, Cyprus, on Jan. 14, 2020. The number of Syrian refugees leaving Lebanon is likely to keep rising, the head of a top international agency working with migrants warned Tuesday, April m30, 2024, as pressure builds due to their arrival on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Migration agency chief warns that even more Syrians will leave Lebanon as donors cut back on aid

Associated Press

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne, left, speaks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri during their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Top French diplomat arrives in Lebanon in attempt to broker a halt to Hezbollah-Israel clashes

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press