Residents in northern Israel headed for shelters as officials placed the region under a formal state of emergency. There were indications that the fighting in Lebanon was about to escalate after an Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon, raising to six the number of Israeli fatalities in the region during the past two weeks.
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