Back-to-back killings have increased fears of an escalation into a wider war, leaving the Middle East waiting to see how Iran and Hezbollah will respond.
has entered a "new phase," as he addressed mourners at the funeral of a commander from the group who was killed by an Israeli airstrike this week in Beirut.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for Haniyeh's assassination, but comments by Israeli military spokesman Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari stopped short of an outright denial. In a speech via video link to mourners gathered with Shukur's coffin at an auditorium in a Beirut suburb, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said, "We … have entered a new phase that is different from the previous period."
International officials have been scrambling to avert a cycle of retaliation before it spirals into a greater war. Israel and Iran risked plunging into war earlier this year when Israel hit Iran's embassy in Damascus in April. Iran retaliated, and Israel countered in an unprecedented exchange of strikes on each other's soil, but international efforts succeeded in containing that cycle before it spun out of control.Iranians burn a representation of the Israeli flag during the funeral ceremony of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard in Tehran.
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