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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.
Israel has intensified its airstrikes and moved thousands more troops across the border into southern Lebanon, displacing about a fifth of this country's population in less than a month, according to Lebanon's government.
The UN Children's Fund UNICEF says that includes an average of 19,000 children per day.
It calls the speed and scale of this staggering.
Among those sleeping in a Beirut soccer stadium are Maisoun Fakih and her four children, who fled the south.
With only the clothes on their backs, she says, after an Israeli airstrike hit next door to them.
The UN says the, quote, mental and emotional exhaustion weighing on the children of Lebanon is devastating.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
Lebanese state media say the latest Israeli airstrikes hit homes, a highway and several bridges across the Latani River.
Israel's finance minister says that river, 10 to 20 miles inside Lebanon, should be the new border with Israel.
His comments to Israeli radio are the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to take Lebanese territory.
Lebanon's president calls the targeting of bridges a prelude to an invasion.
Israel says it's targeting infrastructure used by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants who have fired rockets across the border, and that one of its latest attacks killed a commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Lebanon says more than 1,000 people have been killed this month and more than one million displaced in a country of less than six million.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
Denmark, which governs Greenland, sent troops there at the start of the year and apparently armed them with enough explosives to destroy the island's main runways.
They were also given blood bags to use for transfusions in the event people were wounded by combat.