Hezbollah buries commander killed in Israeli strike while conflict escalates

Summary

• Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensified overnight, with both sides carrying out large cross-border strikes
• Lebanon-based Hezbollah launched 150 rockets into Israel, according to the IDF, in what it said was retaliation for recent attacks targeting it.
• Some reached further than south than in previous strikes and damaged homes
• Israel carried out air strikes on targets in southern Lebanon and said it had destroyed thousands of Hezbollah's rocket launchers
• Meanwhile, the funeral of a senior Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli has been held in Beirut
• The UN has warned the region is "on the brink of imminent catastrophe" as fears of an all out war grow

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