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JERUSALEM/BEIRUT - Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for Israel 's campaign against Tehran's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley after Israel is piled into bomb shelters. Reporters on state television lay flat on the ground during live broadcasts.Reuters journalists saw missiles intercepted in the airspace of neighbouring Jordan.
Rapid escalationThough so far characterised by Israel as limited, the first ground campaign into Lebanon for 18 years would pit Israeli soldiers against Hezbollah, Iran's best-armed proxy force in the Middle East.It marks the biggest escalation of regional warfare since fighting erupted in Gaza a year ago, and follows weeks of intense airstrikes that have decapitated Hezbollah by killing most of its top leaders.
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