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00:00Explosions in south Lebanon near the border, as Israeli artillery fire and airstrikes targeted
00:07multiple towns.
00:09The attacks came after Israel reported intercepting rockets fired from Lebanon into northern parts
00:15of Israel.
00:17The rockets fired have not been claimed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
00:21We were able to see two rockets from inside Lebanon and we immediately got the residents
00:31into the shelters according to the home front command.
00:37As head of security I made sure we did not have farmers out in the fields."
00:43In retaliation for the rockets, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he'd ordered
00:49the military to act forcefully against dozens of terror targets in Lebanon.
00:55Amid rising tensions, Netanyahu's Lebanese counterpart has warned against further escalation.
01:01This could lead the country into a new war with disastrous consequences for Lebanon.
01:06The Lebanese army for its part announced it had dismantled three homemade rocket launch
01:12sites on its soil, and is attempting to regain control over Hezbollah on its border with
01:18Israel.
01:19Lebanon's president, however, has accused Israel of using the rocket attacks to reignite
01:25the conflict.
01:26What happened today in the south, which has been ongoing since February 18th, constitutes
01:31continued aggression against Lebanon and a setback to the rescue plan that the Lebanese
01:36unanimously approved.
01:39The recent events threatens the truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and Hezbollah,
01:45a conflict that left Hezbollah's top commanders, many fighters and much of their arsenal destroyed.