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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Martin Farrer

Morning Mail: Israeli airstrikes kill hundreds in Lebanon, voters back Labor’s housing bills, Cripps takes Brownlow

Smoke billows from a site hit by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese town of Zaita.
Smoke billows from a site hit by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese town of Zaita. Photograph: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

Morning everyone. Nearly 500 people have been killed after Israel intensified its war on Hezbollah with bombing raids on more than 300 targets in Lebanon; the day’s death toll is the country’s highest since the end of the 1975-90 civil war. We have reports from our team across the Middle East.

At home, an Essential poll backs the government’s stranded housing bills; our podcast looks at the Murdoch family’s real-life Succession battle; and Carlton skipper Patrick Cripps takes out a second Brownlow.

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