Fighting across the Israel Lebanon border has quieted after days of bombardment.
The immediate threat of a broader regional war seems to have lessened for now, but in Gaza, the humanitarian crisis continues.
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This is a recommendation nobody wants to hear, kind of at the end of summer.
But it is part of this sort of layered prevention strategy.
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