Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been killed in israeli strikes on the lebanese capital of Beirut Friday.
Strikes hit several apartment buildings and, according to the israeli military, targeted Hezbollah's headquarters.
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Nasrallah's killing and the attack on Beirut signaled a major escalation in the fighting between Israel and Lebanon.
With this, Israel seems to have expanded another major front on its northern border.
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