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Breaking: Israel launches ‘extensive’ strikes on Lebanon

Israel has launched an “extensive wave of attacks” on Lebanon after a woman was killed and others injured in a rocket attack on northern Israel.

Lebanese media reported that villages had been hit and buildings were on fire.

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Hezbollah, which is thought to have carried out the attack on Israel, has not claimed responsibility.

The two sides have traded regular fire across Israel’s northern border since the 7 October attacks by Hamas.

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“Fighter jets began an extensive wave of attacks in Lebanese territory,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman, Daniel Hagari, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.

Mr Hagari said the IDF would give more detail on its latest air strikes in the coming hours.

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The attack from Lebanon on northern Israel hit the Safed area, and was targeted at the Israeli military’s northern command centre, the IDF said.

A video shows one of the rockets landing near the gate of a hospital.

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Hezbollah – a Shia Muslim organisation – is one of the most heavily-armed, non-state military forces in the world.

It was established in the early 1980s by the region’s most dominant Shia power, Iran, to oppose Israel.

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