His daily ritual, however, was interrupted when the windows began to rattle and his house shake. As the sound of dozens of low-flying war planes and airstrikes grew louder, it became clear that this was more than the occasional bout of shelling he had got used to.
"It was a very hard night and an even harder morning... It feels like it's too near, nobody could sleep," Abu Khudoud, a shopkeeper in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, said.
Last Sunday, Israel carried out its most intense aerial barrage on Lebanon since the war in Gaza began in October, launching more than 40 airstrikes across nearly 30 locations. Israeli officials claimed the attack was pre-emptive, directed at Hezbollah missile launchers aimed at targets inside Israel, detected by intelligence agencies the day before.
Lebanon's health ministry said three people were killed in the airstrikes, with two more injured. Hezbollah and its allied political party, Amal, announced the death of three of their fighters a few hours later.
Despite the flurry of airstrikes, Hezbollah proceeded with an attack of its own, hitting 11 military sites across Israel with a combination of drones and more than 320 Katyusha rockets. In a statement, the Lebanese group said it was the "first phase" of a retaliation for Israel's killing of its top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut nearly a month earlier.
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Starlink's conquest of the Amazon leaves Brazil in a dilemma
The helicopter swooped into one of the most inaccessible corners of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from it into the caiman-inhabited waters below.
Dalai Lama's mountain town feels the strain of tourist boom
SUVs and saloon cars pass slowly along McLeod Ganj's narrow one-way Jogiwara Road, blaring horns at pedestrians and scooter riders and playing loud music.
'I am all the world' The brutal rule of a West Bank settler
Palestinians tell ofblacklisted Yakov's reign across the Jabal Salman valley and heisjust one of many violent bosses
Stormy waters New flashpoint emerges in South China Sea dispute
Hopes that tensions in the South China Sea might ease have been short lived.
'Justice delayed' Why trust in public inquiries to bring closure is fading
After the final report of the Grenfell fire inquiry was published, Hisam Choucair, who lost six family members in the blaze, said: \"We did not ask for this inquiry... It's delayed the justice my family deserves.\"
Celeriac soup with almond pangrattato
I'm not ashamed to say that as soon as September hits, my stick blender comes out. Just as I embrace salads when the clocks go forward in the UK, I wholeheartedly throw myself into soup season once the summer holidays end. Autumn is approaching in the northern hemisphere and I'm ready with my ladle. Celeriac is one of my favourite soup heroes, because it gives the creamiest, silkiest finish with little effort. You don't have to make the almond pangrattato, but it is a wonderful addition.
Are smoke signals telling me to make an oil change in the kitchen?
Should you that is, not can you) cook with extra-virgin olive oil? Antonio, Atlanta, Georgia, US
Going underground
A darkly humorous encounter between an American spy-cop and the members ofan eco-commune she is hired to infiltrate
All work and no play
Hard Graft, a powerfulnew London exhibition, focuses onworkers’ exploitation, from the ruined hands ofa washerwoman to mothers forced to sell their bodies
What the princess and the shaman tell us about hereditary privilege
It should have been an Instagram-perfect wedding image, but it turned out to be something more embarrassing.
