Hezbollah drone attack kills four IDF soldiers as US prepares to send missile system to Israel | First Thing

The strike, which Hezbollah said was retaliation for one that killed 22 people in Beirut, is the deadliest since Israel's ground invasion of Lebanon. Plus, trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year

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Hezbollah has carried out its deadliest strike since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) saying the attack killed four soldiers at an army base in central Israel on Sunday.

How did Iran react to the news about American troops? Its foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, warned that the US was placing its soldiers' lives at risk by deploying them to operate US missile systems in Israel" and that Tehran had no red lines in defending our people and interests".

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