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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger

Israel’s double-punch humiliation of Hezbollah is a dance on the edge of an abyss

Mourners carry and lay their hands on a coffin covered in a yellow and green shroud, with flowers and a photo of the dead man
Mourners in Beirut carry the coffin of one of the victims of pagers that exploded across Lebanon a day earlier. Photograph: Wael Hamzeh/EPA

The detonation of walkie-talkies around Lebanon a day after scores of pagers used by Hezbollah officials blew up is a one-two punch that drives home the extent of Israel’s penetration of its Shia foe’s defences across its northern border.

It represents utter humiliation for Hezbollah that its security can be so effortlessly breached twice, and be shown incapable of protecting its own people.

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