{"id":273,"date":"2024-01-31T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/?p=273"},"modified":"2024-01-31T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T22:59:14","slug":"hezbollah-israel-trade-fire-crisis-in-dangerous-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/2024\/01\/31\/hezbollah-israel-trade-fire-crisis-in-dangerous-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah, Israel trade fire, crisis in dangerous escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Hezbollah, Israel trade fire, crisis in dangerous escalation<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tension has escalated between Hezbollah and Israel as\u00a0 Hezbollah has claimed the responsibility for launching rockets at three Israeli military sites near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Al Jazeera has reported that the rockets were\u00a0 targeted at Israeli army positions in Kfar Qila, a village close to the frontier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hezbollah said in a statement that the attack was a response to the Israeli air strikes on southern Lebanon earlier that day, which it called a \u201cdangerous escalation\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The recent exchange of fire was the first serious cross-border incident since 2019, when Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army base and a vehicle. Israel responded with artillery and helicopter attacks.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The latest flare-up comes amid rising tensions in the region over Israel\u2019s ground invasion of Gaza after Hamas, which controls the Strip, launched an attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, killing over 1,000 people and taking more than 200 hostages.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Hezbollah, which fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006, has said that it is ready to confront any Israeli aggression and defend Lebanon\u2019s sovereignty and dignity while continuing to support the Palestinians in Gaza.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kunnengari<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hezbollah, Israel trade fire, crisis in dangerous escalation Tension has escalated between Hezbollah and Israel as\u00a0 Hezbollah has claimed the responsibility for launching rockets at three Israeli military sites near the border with Lebanon on Wednesday. Al Jazeera has reported that the rockets were\u00a0 targeted at Israeli army positions in Kfar Qila, a village close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}