
Summary
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Iran’s supreme leader has defended his country’s missile attack on Israel earlier this week as a “minimum punishment”, as he makes a rare public speech
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Israeli strikes in Lebanon intensified overnight, as the military told people in more than 30 villages in the south to immediately evacuate and head north
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A major road out of Lebanon was hit – video shows a large crater near the border crossing into Syria, where thousands of people have been fleeing
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Officials tell US media a key target of the overnight bombing was Hezbollah’s next potential leader Hashem Safieddine. His condition is unknown
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Lebanon’s health ministry says 37 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks in the past 24 hours; more than 2,000 people have now been killed since last October
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