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Israeli airstrikes killed three journalists, 10 paramedics and a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon this weekend.

Israel's prime minister ordered the military to expand its invasion of southern Lebanon.

Well over a million Lebanese people have already been displaced by Israeli attacks.

I'm Leila Fadil, that's Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News.

Iran agreed to let 20 ships through the Strait of Hormuz as Pakistan emerges as a mediator in the war.

But thousands of U.S.

troops are arriving in the Middle East, and Iran says any ground invasion will be met with force.

So is a deal coming, or is this war widening?

The toll inside Lebanon is devastating.

Officials say well over a million people have been displaced.

More than 1,200 people have been killed, including, just this weekend alone, three journalists, 10 paramedics, and a U.N.