As Iran war rages, Israel seizes chance to finish the job against Hezbollah | CNN

For the past week, Israel has unleashed a furious assault across Lebanon, targeting the militant group Hezbollah from Tripoli in the far north to the villages along the country’s southern border. The Israeli military says it has targeted Hezbollah sites with hundreds of strikes. The attacks have killed at least 217 people, wounded nearly 700 more, Lebanese authorities say, with hundreds of thousands displaced. At least 12 Israeli soldiers have been injured in the renewed fighting, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. That strikes will likely only increase in the coming days with evacuation warnings issued for vast swaths of the country, including everything south of the Litani River and densely packed neighborhoods of Beirut. When asked earlier this week if Israel was preparing a large-scale ground invasion of Lebanon, the IDF spokesman said, “All options remain on the table.” The war started on Saturday morning as the US and Israel launched joint strikes against Iran. But Israel was always prepared for the war to expand to Iran’s regional proxies. And when Hezbollah fired a small barrage of missiles and drones at a military base in northern Israel early Monday morning, Pr