Two civilians have been killed and several others wounded after the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired at least 150 rockets into northern Israel. Paramedics said a man and a woman in their 40s were fatally wounded by shrapnel in the border town of Kiryat Shmona.

Israel has claimed to have targeted Hezbollah ’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut as it carried out strikes against the militant group’s leadership – with Iran ’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing that Tehran and its proxies will not back down.

World / The leveling of Lebanese border towns is the continuation of Israel’s Gaza policy: total destruction and ill-defined objectives. Séamus Malekafzali The threats had come so often, in so many different forms,