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Hezbollah released its own video showing what it says is a guided missile hitting an Israeli tank.
Hezbollah is backed by Iran and Israel says it's killed several of Iran's Revolutionary Guard members inside Lebanon.
Iran's foreign ministry says six Iranian diplomats have been killed here as well.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
In a video posted to social media, officials from a Christian border village just inside Lebanon
sit on their church steps, saying Israeli troops have not arrived at their village yet, but explosions can be heard behind them.
Israeli officials say they plan to take Lebanese territory up to the Litani River, which runs 10 to 20 miles north of the current border with Israel.
Hezbollah says it targeted a group of Israeli soldiers inside that area with a drone.
Lebanon's health ministry says 42 first responders are among the more than 1,000 people killed here this month.
The UN Secretary General, who visited Lebanon recently, says it should not become the next Gaza.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
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Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it's withdrawn the Iranian ambassador's accreditation and demands he leave no later than this Sunday.
Israel's foreign minister said he welcomes the move.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants are a force in Lebanese politics, but relations between Beirut and Tehran have deteriorated.