STORY: Two people were killed on Tuesday in Nahariya, northern Israel, after a warehouse was struck during a rocket strike, according to Israeli medical services. The Israeli army said a barrage of 10 rockets fired from Lebanon was partially intercepted.

The Israeli military pounded Beirut's southern suburbs with airstrikes on Tuesday, mounting one of its heaviest daytime attacks yet on the Hezbollah-controlled area after the defence minister ruled out a ceasefire until Israeli goals were met.

According to his logic—and that of other Israeli government officials—these assassinations will help permanently destroy Hezbollah. But the reality is that they are unlikely to work. Hezbollah is a 40-year-old organization with a large social base,