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The Take: Are Hezbollah and Israel close to an all-out war?

Fighting with Hezbollah is intensifying as Israel fights a war in Gaza and steps up air strikes in Lebanon.

Smoke and fire rise from a building following an Israeli strike on what the Israeli military says are Hezbollah targets in a location given as Lebanon, amid the ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in this screengrab taken from an undated handout video released on November 24, 2023. — Smoke and fire rise from a building after an Israeli strike on what the Israeli military says are Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in this image taken from an undated handout video released on November 24, 2023 [Israeli military/Reuters]

There’s been a regular exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army for more than two months. Now, the fight is intensifying with Israel carrying out what it says are “wide-scale” air strikes in southern Lebanon, pushing both sides closer to an all-out war. So what does the future look like as tensions escalate?

In this episode:

Ali Hashem (@alihashem_tv), Al Jazeera correspondent

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Source: Al Jazeera