WILL ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH FIGHTING CONTINUE?
Tensions are high on the Israel-Lebanon border after Israel and the militant group Hezbollah traded rocket fire on Sunday, raining missiles on military targets on both sides and renewing fears of a wider Middle East war.
Israel said it used about 100 warplanes to strike rocket launchers across southern Lebanon to thwart an imminent Hezbollah attack, while Lebanese militants said they aimed hundreds of rockets and drones at military bases in northern Israel and the Golan Heights.
“Sunday’s exchange of fire did not set off a long-feared war, and the heavy firepower and lack of civilian casualties might allow both sides to claim a sort of victory and step back,” the Associated
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