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Hezbollah says targeted Israeli troops in Lebanon border village

Hezbollah said it launched rockets at Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory on Sunday, as troops conducted incursions into the country's south.

The group's fighters "targeted at 10:10 am (0710 GMT)... a gathering of Israeli enemy forces in the village of Maroun al-Ras with artillery shells," Hezbollah said in a statement.

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Macron says ending arms exports for Gaza, Lebanon only way to stop fighting

French President Emmanuel Macron said that "stopping the export of weapons" used in Gaza and Lebanon was the only way to end fighting there, and also condemned "deliberate" targeting of U.N. peacekeepers.

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Building hit as two Hezbollah drones reach central Israel

The Israeli military on Friday said air raid sirens sounded in central Israel after two aerial drones entered the country from Lebanon, with at least one building damaged north of Tel Aviv during the incident.

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Hezbollah warns Israelis to stay away from army in residential areas

Hezbollah has warned Israelis to stay away from Israeli army sites in residential areas in the north of the country.

"The Israeli enemy army uses the homes" of Israelis in north Israel, and has military bases inside residential "neighborhoods in major occupied cities such as Haifa, Tiberias, Acre," it said in a statement in Arabic and Hebrew.

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Hezbollah fires rockets at Haifa as Israel condemned for attacking UNIFIL

Hezbollah said it launched a salvo of missiles at an Israeli military base on Saturday, as Israeli troops battled militants in Lebanon and Gaza on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

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Israel army warns south Lebanon residents 'not to return to homes'

The Israeli military on Saturday warned residents of south Lebanon "not to return" to their homes as troops continued fighting Hezbollah militants in the area.

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Iran parliament speaker visits site of deadliest Israeli strike in central Beirut

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Saturday visited the site of the deadliest Israeli strike on central Beirut in recent weeks, accompanied by two Hezbollah lawmakers, an AFP photographer said.

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2 Lebanese soldiers killed as airstrike hits near their checkpoint

Two Lebanese soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit a building near a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Kafra, Bint Jbeil province, the Lebanese Army said Friday.

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At least 8 killed in evening airstrikes on South, Bekaa

At least eight people were killed in intensified airstrikes across villages in southern and eastern Lebanon on Friday evening, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

An Israeli airstrike on Baysarieh, a village in Sidon province, killed three people, including a 2-year-old and a 16-year-old, and injured three others, the health ministry said.

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Hochstein says working 'non-stop' for Lebanon ceasefire

U.S. special envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein overnight told local media that the United States was working "non-stop" towards a ceasefire in the country.

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