![An Israeli self-propelled artillery howitzer shells southern Lebanon from a position in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on January 4, 2024. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against all-out conflict, after Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi, in a visit to the Lebanese border, said troops were "in very high readiness". (Photo by jalaa marey / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/2024-01/GettyImages-1899103596.jpg?h=f361150e&itok=bpqOowC5)
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![Hezbollah and Syrian flags are seen fluttering in Fleita, Syria August 2, 2017. REUTERS/ Omar Sanadiki - RC15E3E7FA20](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2018/04/RTS1A4MO.jpg/RTS1A4MO.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=xfEoXZ-b)
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![Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) meets Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Damascus December 10, 2014 in this picture released by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT)
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![EILAT, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 09: An Israeli F-16 jet takes off on December 9, 2014 at the Ovda airbase in the Negev Desert near Eilat, southern Israel. Israel and Greece concluded a Joint Air Forces drill during the joint IDF-Hellenic Air Force drill week. On Sunday, official Syrian media reported that Israeli jets had bombed targets near Damascus International Airport and in the town of Dimas, north of Damascus and near the border with Lebanon. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/460195390.jpg/460195390.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=WN4nMWGI)
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![Lebanon's senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Nabil Qawouq leads the payers around the coffin of Ibrahim al-Haj, a Hezbollah commander who died during a mission in Iraq, during his funeral in Mashghara village in the Bekaa Valley July 30, 2014. A Hezbollah commander has died during a mission in Iraq, sources familiar with the incident said on Wednesday, indicating the Lebanese group that is already fighting in Syria's civil war may be involved in a second conflict in the region. Four sources in Lebanon named t](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/08/RTR40RQY.jpg/RTR40RQY.jpg?h=c2c5b897&itok=sJTxMtbv)
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![A forensic inspector collects evidence at the site of the two suicide bombings that occurred on Tuesday near Iran's embassy compound in Beirut November 20, 2013. Two suicide bombings rocked Iran's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attache and hurling bodies and burning wreckage across a debris-strewn street. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX15LJV](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTX15LJV.jpg/RTX15LJV.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=Y5LJMnmH)
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![Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the site of a car bomb, that targeted Al-Aytam service station the day before and left at least four people dead, in the town of Hermel, in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa valley, on February 2, 2014. The Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, a group named after Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, claimed the attack on Twitter, saying it was a suicide bombing in response to Hezbollah's involvement in Syria. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/466543427.jpg/466543427.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=mjX_T3A7)
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![Members of the Lebanese army security inspect the explosion site east of Baalbeck city in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, December 17, 2013. An explosives-laden car blew up on Tuesday in a remote region of the Bekaa Valley controlled by Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah movement, killing the driver and wounding at least two people who were pursuing the vehicle, security sources said. REUTERS/Ahmad Shalha (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX16LYD](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/12/RTX16LYD.jpg/RTX16LYD.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ZBshFMOH)
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![Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wave flags and a picture depicting (L-R) Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Syria's late President Hafez al-Assad, father of current President Bashar al-Assad at a protest against a film made in the U.S. that mocks the Prophet Mohammad, in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil September 22, 2012. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTR38A9D](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/12/RTR38A9D.jpg/RTR38A9D.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=d-8fJwG-)
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![Lebanon's Hezbollah members and relatives carry the coffin of commander Hassan al-Laqqis during his funeral in Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley December 4, 2013. Al-Laqqis, a Hezbollah commander who fought in Syria's civil war was shot dead outside his home in Lebanon on Wednesday in an attack which the militant Shi'ite group blamed on Israel. Israel denied any role in the killing of Hassan al-Laqqis, who was shot from close range by a silenced gun as he arrived home at around midnight in the Hadath dist](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/12/RTX163ED.jpg/RTX163ED.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=Jt874JjD)
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![Civil Defence personnel extinguish a fire on cars at the site of the explosions near the Iranian embassy in Beirut November 19, 2013. The cultural attache Ebrahim Ansari at the Iranian embassy in Beirut was among at least 23 people killed in two explosions on Tuesday, Lebanese sources said. Lebanese Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said the explosions wounded 146 people. REUTERS/Ahmad Yassine (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX15JQX](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/11/RTX15JQX.jpg/RTX15JQX.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=AKnWOuuN)
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