Air raid sirens sounded throughout northern Israel on Saturday as Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group mentioned it fired rockets at Israel, and Israel mentioned it struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation, as high U.S. and EU diplomats visited the area looking for to maintain the conflict from spreading.
Fighting raged on inside Gaza, particularly in and close to the southern metropolis of Khan Younis, the place the Israeli army mentioned it had killed three members of the militant Palestinian Hamas group that guidelines the densely populated coastal strip.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the European Union’s high diplomat, Josep Borrell, have been on separate journeys to the area to attempt to quell spillover from the three-month-old conflict into Lebanon, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Red Sea transport lanes.
Israel and Hezbollah typically commerce hearth throughout the Lebanese border, the West Bank is seething with anger, and the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen appear decided to proceed assaults on Red Sea transport till Israel stops bombarding Palestinians in Gaza.