Targeted killings and strikes suggest risk of wider conflict is heightening despite leaders’ reluctance to acknowledge it
Iran’s reaction to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh could draw its proxies from across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, deeper into the conflict.Iran’s reaction to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh could draw its proxies from across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, deeper into the conflict.el Aviv, Hodeidah, Majdal Shams, Baghdad, Beirut and now Tehran.
“We are used to martyrs and civilians dying,” said Joumana, a 40-year-old from Haret Hreik. “We take pride in the martyrs, as if he was a groom we were clapping for. We are not scared of anything,But while Tuesday night’s massive explosion in Beirut signalled the waiting was over, further escalation appears likely: Nasrallah reportedly sent a message to Israel through US mediators that strikes on the Lebanese capital would cross a red line, and trigger an attack on Tel Aviv.
The decades-old shadow war between Israel and Iran burst into the open for the first time in April, when Tehranin a carefully calibrated response to the killing of a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Even as the war entered uncharted territory on Wednesday, there was satisfaction in several sections of the media and political establishment in Israel at the assassinations in
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