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Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense air strikes on southern Lebanon in nearly a year of war late on Thursday, targeting rocket launchers directed towards Israel. Israel said it is shifting its war objectives to its northern border with Lebanon after carrying out two days of attacks on sabotaged personal electronics devices used by Hezbollah. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a speech on Thursday vowed revenge for the blasts and said that the group would continue its attacks on Israel in support of fellow Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Read FRANCE 24's liveblog for all the latest developments. Israeli warplanes carried out late on Thursday their in nearly a year of war, striking hundreds of multiple rocket launcher barrels in southern Lebanon that were set to be fired immediately toward Israel. said on Thursday it launched at least 17 attacks on military sites in northern Israel.
said that components used in thousands of pagers that detonated in Lebanon on Tuesday were not made in Taiwan. The president of Taiwanese pager company, Apollo Gold, which was linked to the blasts was questioned and released by Taiwanese authorities late Thursday night. Read also:.
