2024-07-09
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For months, Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian-armed Shia militia,
have traded drones, rockets and missiles.
Northern Israel has been blasted and depopulated.
70,000 people have been displaced.
More have left southern Lebanon.
On July 3, Israel killed a senior Hezbollah commander.
The group responded with a heavy rocket barrage.
Several countries, including America, are telling their citizens to leave Lebanon.
Israel's leaders talk of wars, though it is inevitable.
It would be the most intense conflict in the region in decades,
a calamity for Israel and a disaster for Lebanon.
There are still ways out.
American and European diplomats continue to shuttle between Israel and Lebanon, hoping,
with less and less optimism,
to get Hezbollah to withdraw seven to ten kilometres away from the border.