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‘We are now in a double battle’: Netanyahu joins soldiers on the Lebanese border as they ‘hold off’ Hezbollah from opening a second front – and warns Iran-backed terrorists against ‘biggest mistake of their lives’ if they enter war with Israel

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Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hezbollah against opening a second war front against Israel or risk provoking a massive retaliation that would bring ‘unimaginable devastation upon Lebanon’.

The Prime Minister said he could not tell his soldiers ‘right now if Hezbollah will decide to enter the war fully’ but said the fight with Hamas was ‘do or die’ for Israel. 

The stark message comes as fears are mounting that the Israel-Hamas war could provoke an all-out battle in the Middle East,

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Lebanese Depositors Have Resorted to Force to Withdraw Their Savings

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By the time Walid al-Hajjar stormed his bank armed with a jug of gasoline, four lighters and a willingness to set himself on fire, his wife’s bone cancer was too far gone for him to save her.

But he wanted to make her more comfortable in the time remaining — treated with painkillers in a hospital rather than writhing in agony at home, he recalled. And the family had already accumulated tens of thousands of dollars of debt from friends

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