Borderline of fire

Attacks intensify between Israel and Hezbollah with Rafah in peril

- CHRIS HUGHES

CROSS-BORDER fighting between Lebanese Hezbollah militants and Israel has increased in ferocity as troops prepare to storm the Gazan enclave of Rafah.

The Lebanese network launched a missile attack on a military base near the city of Acre, farther south than usual after an Israeli air strike killed one of its officials.

Israel described Hussein Ali Azqul as a significant Hezbollah operative.

Witnesses said the attack happened in Adloun, in south Lebanon. An Israeli strike in the region on Tuesday also killed a woman, a 10-year-old girl and six others, hospital officials said.

Hezbollah has been clashing with Israeli forces along the border for more than six months against the backdrop of Israel's war against Hamas.