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Added on the 06/04/2023 18:15:09 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of an Israeli tank and Iron Dome battery near the border with Lebanon, after a barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon at Israel on the Jewish Passover holiday, in the largest escalation along the frontier since Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006. IMAGES
Israeli military post in the disputed Shebaa Farms with Lebanon seen from southern Lebanon. Lebanon's powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said it had fired "large numbers of artillery shells and guided missiles" at Israeli positions in a contested border areas "in solidarity" with Hamas. IMAGES
Smoke rises above the southern Lebanese border village of Khiam following Israeli bombardment after Hezbollah fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the barrage as a response to the killing of Hamas's deputy leader in Beirut. IMAGES
Plumes of smoke billow over Israel-Lebanon border, as fears of Israel's war in Gaza could spiral across the Middle East grow. Amid the almost three-month-old war, Israel has traded almost daily cross-border fire with Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, while so far avoiding a full-scale war. IMAGES
A few hours before the speech of Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the border between Israel and Lebanon is still plunged into relative calm. On January 2, a strike attributed to Israel in the southern suburbs of Beirut killed senior Hamas official, Saleh al- Arouri, raising fears of an extension of the conflict into Lebanon. IMAGES
Relatives of Israeli soldier Amit Hod Ziv, killed on the northern border with Lebanon, pay tribute before his burial in Rosh Haayin near Tel Aviv. IMAGES