ISRAEL issued new evacuation orders for swathes of the Lebanese capital Beirut today, a day after intense bombing of residential areas that killed at least 253 people and wounded more than a thousand.

Its escalation of the war threatened to derail the ceasefire just concluded between the United States and Iran, which said Israel’s actions “blatantly violated” the deal and that it was closing the Strait of Hormuz to shipping again in response.

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