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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israel’s northern border with Lebanon is often tense, the legacy of past conflicts. But as Israel readies to invade Gaza, its army faces the threat of a two-front war.
He urged Hezbollah to show restraint while also warning the group that, if it “chooses the path of war, it will pay a very heavy price”. That war left more than 1,200 dead in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 in Israel, mostly soldiers, in a conflict that left deep scars and the border bristling with guns.
A grieving and enraged Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and responded with a devastating bombing campaign on Gaza that has killed more than 2,670, stoking fury across the Arab world. Both sides on the Lebanon-Israel border had so far adhered to “unwritten understandings about red lines neither should cross -– to avoid an escalation”, said Heiko Wimmen, project director for Iraq, Syria, Lebanon at the Crisis Group, in a paper published Saturday.
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