Fighting Rages in Lebanon and Gaza as Cease-Fire Talks Falter

Published on August 21, 2024

With Gaza cease-fire negotiations teetering, fighting and rocket attacks aren’t letting up. Hezbollah and Israel exchanged significant attacks over the last two days. Hezbollah sent more than 200 projectiles into northern Israel on Aug. 20, and the next day launched what Israeli media called a “massive” salvo of 50 toward private homes in the Golan Heights, injuring at least one person and setting a house on fire. Israel retaliated to the first with an airstrike on Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on the night of Aug. 20 to 21, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the next day. The strike was near the city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, populated mainly by the Shi’ite Muslims from whom Hezbollah draws its support. Hezbollah said the attack killed one and injured 19....