Israel conveyed messages to Lebanon and Syria that it holds them responsible for maintaining quiet on the Israel-Lebanon border. The message followed an attack last Friday in which Hezbollah gunmen in Lebanon killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others in a missile strike along the border. U.S. officials called the attack a “clear provocation.”
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