There is ‘an incentive for [Hezbollah]them now to try to hit soft targets abroad in response to what is happening to them in Lebanon,’ Emanuele Ottolenghi, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

The Israeli military pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area after the defence minister ruled out a ceasefire until Israeli goals were met.