Monday Briefing: Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Major Attacks

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A large plume of gray smoke and dust drifts high into the sky, set in the middle of a hilly landscape with agricultural fields visible in the distance.
The site of an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese side of the border yesterday.Credit...Kawnat Haju/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Israel’s military and Hezbollah fired back and forth in one of the largest cross-border barrages since the war in Gaza began. Here’s the latest.

Israel said that roughly 100 of its fighter jets bombed more than 270 targets connected to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon yesterday, a figure which could not be independently verified. Hezbollah said it had answered with more than 320 rockets at nearly a dozen Israeli military bases and positions.

Both sides claimed that their actions had been a success. Israel said its attack was a pre-emptive defense against Hezbollah rockets, and Hezbollah said it had retaliated for the killing last month of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, in Beirut.

For now, at least, the exchange of attacks fell short of the major escalation that many had feared after Shukr was killed. Both sides later appeared to signal that they did not intend to escalate further. This timeline shows how the attack unfolded.

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Pavel Durov in 2016.Credit...Aop.Press/Corbis, via Getty Images

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