One was taken to hospital. It’s the second such incident involving the U.N. peacekeepers in the past two days. The Israel Defense Forces said the peacekeepers were “inadvertently hurt during combat against Hezbollah.” The IDF “expresses deep ...

Today Israel is once again on the verge of thumping Iran. This time Mr Netanyahu will have no problem getting approval from a cabinet which if anything is even more gung-ho than he is. Nor are the leaders of Israel’s armed forces as opposed to such action as before.

Israel’s defense minister warned on Wednesday that his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising,” while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants.