An expert says the situation is "extremely volatile", as Iran looks to strike back against Israel.
The back-to-back assassinations of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders in the Middle East have pushed the region to its most dangerous point yet.
Past conflicts between Israel and Lebanon in 1996 and 2006, which involved Israeli military ground operations against Hezbollah fighters, led to high civilian casualties and ended in military and political stalemates. For past days, Israel's key ally the United States has been braced for expected Iranian retaliation for the killing of a top Hamas leader in Tehran last week.His death came only hours after Israel said it had killed Hezbollah's most senior military official, Fu'ad Shukr, in a drone strike in Beirut, Lebanon.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned there are "challenging days ahead", while Hamas and Iran's supreme pledged to strike back against Israel.
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