August 7, 2024

Fears of an all-out conflict in the Middle East have grown as Iran and Hezbollah are mulling a response to suspected and confirmed Israeli attacks that killed senior officials of both Hamas and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday vowed to retaliate for an Israeli strike last week that killed Fuad Shukr, the group's military commander, and said he will defy international calls against it.

"Nobody in Lebanon or abroad can ask us to deal with the aggression that happened last Tuesday as a normal aggression within the context of the battle that has been going on for 10 months," he told a crowd in Beirut's southern suburbs.

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