Almost a quarter of Hezbollah’s fighters were killed and half of its rockets were used or destroyed in its war with Israel, Shimon Peres said. Israel destroyed most of Hezbollah’s longer-range rockets in the early stages of the war, and the rest were fired, Israel’s deputy premier said Wednesday in Washington.
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