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...The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said that the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week widely blamed on Israel marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response would...
...Israeli air strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus....
...At least 18 Revolutionary Guard members have been killed in Syria, while Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon have killed more than 250 fighters of Hizbollah, Iran’s most powerful and important proxy....
...Israel had been bracing for an Iranian response since Tehran made clear that they considered the strike on the consulate in Damascus, which killed one of Iran’s most senior commanders in Syria and Lebanon...
...“Because of corona, because of August 4 [the explosion in Beirut’s port in 2020], we didn’t have the luxury of travelling outside Lebanon for a long time,” says Al Solh when I ask her why she chose Europa...
...The strike on the consulate, which killed one of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ most senior figures in Lebanon and Syria, was a significant escalation of the hostilities that have engulfed the Middle East...
...The risks of a new conflict in Lebanon have been rising for some months and the Damascus consulate strike — however skilfully targeted and executed — has pushed the likelihood of that up further....
...The lack of retaliation for Israel’s repeated killings of senior IRGC commanders and allied militia fighters in Syria and Lebanon over the past few months has unnerved the regime’s praetorian guard....
...consulate strike....
...The leader of Lebanon’s Hizbollah militant group said the strike on the consulate marked a “turning point” and vowed that Iran’s response would be “inevitable”....
...Tourism has also been badly hit, with travellers cancelling trips to neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon....
...Israel has prepared for any combination of attacks, from medium-range rockets and drones launched from Iranian proxy militias in Lebanon and Syria, to long-range missiles launched from further afield....
...But the diplomatic compound was in fact an annex to its consulate, not the consulate itself....
...Hizbollah, which is based in Lebanon, said two of its fighters were killed....
...In a separate event, Paris police shut down an area around the Iran consulate after a witness reported a man who appeared armed entering the consulate. Paris police have since arrested the man....
...After the civil war ended in 1990, Lebanon’s fate in effect lay in the hands of its masters in Syria, an ally of Iran....
...General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, said that by targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus in an attack on April 1, Israel had “crossed a red line that was unbearable”...
...Israeli strikes have killed more than 300 people in Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, most of them Hizbollah fighters....
...Ankara blamed Israel for starting the tit-for-tat with its suspected strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, which Turkey called a “violation of international law”....
...Lebanon is still mired in one of the worst economic crises of its modern history....
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