BREAKING UPDATES: A major escalation in an already tense situation

• Israel has conducted “pre-emptive” strikes against targets in Lebanon and states that these were “Hezbollah targets” and that they had detected plans for a “significant attack on its territory”
  
• Hezbollah has started “phase one” of attacks on Israel and has fired hundreds of rockets and drones toward Israel and states that todays operation is “completed and accomplished”
  
• Israel Defence Forces report “little damage”, meanwhile Lebanons Ministry of Health report three fatalities
  
• This latest escalation follows the recent killing of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut