Hezbollah Plunges Lebanon Back Into War

“For more than a year, Israel has carried out near-daily airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon despite its fragile cease-fire with Hezbollah. And for more than a year, in a sharp departure from decades of hostility toward Israel, Hezbollah did not respond,” the New York Times reports.

“Until Monday.”

“Around 1 a.m., Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, fired rockets and sent a swarm of drones toward Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was a largely symbolic move that now threatens to drag Lebanon, still reeling from Hezbollah’s last war with Israel, into yet another.”