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00:00The damage to this pool in northern Israel was reportedly caused by mid-air interceptors
00:05shooting down Hezbollah drones fired from neighboring Lebanon on Saturday night.
00:11Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed several attacks in northern Israel on Sunday.
00:15It said two of its fighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
00:20Tensions have increased since Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed on the 31st of July
00:25in Iran by a presumed Israeli strike.
00:28As well as the killing of senior Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukra in southern
00:32Beirut.
00:33There are reports now that the Israeli intelligence community believes Tehran has decided to attack
00:38Israel directly.
00:40A reporter for the U.S. news website Axios cites two sources, saying the updated assessment
00:46of the Israeli intelligence community is that Iran has decided to attack Israel directly
00:50in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and may do so within days even before
00:56the August 15 hostage deal talks.
01:00Israel's defense minister also on Sunday issued a warning to Tehran and Hezbollah.
01:05Our enemies are threatening to harm us in ways that they have not harmed us before.
01:12We hear these messages from the direction of Iran and we hear these messages from the
01:15direction of Hezbollah.
01:19I tell them, you should know this, that whoever will harm us in a way that he has not acted
01:24in the past, is also likely to get hit by us in a way that we have not acted in the
01:29past.
01:30In Iran, the Tehran Times is reporting that Iran's acting foreign minister, Ali Bakeri
01:36Kani, has contacted diplomatic counterparts in other countries to say that Israel would
01:41be held accountable for its crimes under international law.
01:46On Saturday, the U.S. President Joe Biden was asked what his message was to Iran.
01:50His response was to mouth the word, don't, urging Tehran to avoid retaliation, with concern
01:56high at the prospect of a broader regional conflict.