Airstrikes boost tensions

FEARS of all-out war in the Middle East were last night growing after huge Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

- CHRIS HUGHES

Military chiefs claim yesterday's blitz with 100 jets was a pre-emptive attack at missile sites where militants were plotting to hit Israel minutes later.

Hezbollah earlier fired hundreds of rockets. Israel is braced for a retaliation and Benjamin Netanyahu said his strikes were "not the end of the story".

Our sister paper the Mirror witnessed a Hezbollah missile blasted over northern Israel before the dawn raid in Lebanon and also saw the Hezbollah barrage.

They were staying with British Israelis who had fled the frontline for Golan Heights.