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Lebanon’s Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli command base on Tuesday in retaliation for the killings of one of its commanders and a senior Hamas leader. Hezbollah and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Gaza war broke out on 7 October. The Shia Muslim movement, an ally of Sunni Hamas, said it had targeted the “enemy’s northern command centre” in the city of Safed with “several suicide drones”. It said the attack was part of its response to the killings of Hamas deputy political leader Saleh al-Arouri on 2 January an…