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Israeli PM: Whoever Harms Us – We Harm Him

A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
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Israeli PM: Whoever Harms Us – We Harm Him

A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would take all measures necessary to defend itself, after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander.

"We are determined to do everything possible to defend our country, to return the residents of the north safely to their homes and to continue to uphold a simple rule: Whoever harms us – we harm him," he said in a statement.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah, as the group said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of Fouad Shukr, one of its founders, in Beirut’s southern suburbs last month.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, said around 100 Israeli aircraft took part in Sunday’s strikes.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared a “special situation on the home front.”

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Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
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Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Egypt warned against the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, and called for stability in the country as Hezbollah and Israel clashed again.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike on Hezbollah, as the group said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month.

The heavy exchange of fire came amid mounting fears of an all-out war that could draw in the United States, Iran and its militant allies across the region.

The Israeli military said it struck because Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles toward Israel. Soon after, Hezbollah announced it had launched an attack on Israeli military positions as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, one of its founders, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.