Israel on Saturday unleashed missile strikes in the volatile border area with Lebanon amid an escalation between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reported. Israeli warplanes raided the edges of the town of Marwahin in southern Lebanon, firing two air-to-surface missiles, NNA added, without reporting on casualties. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and is an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas movement, has a heavy presence in the southern Lebanese villages close to the border with Israel. Hezbollah claimed that its fighters launched three missile …