Israel and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah yesterday went at each other with airstrikes overnight in some of their heaviest fighting in the region in months. Israel’s military said it pre-emptively targeted thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon because an “extensive” attack on Israeli territory was coming. After that, reports say the Iran-backed militants fired 320 rockets and drones toward residential areas of northern Israel. Some analysts say fighting like that between the 2 hasn’t been seen since 2006. Hezbollah says their end of it is ‘phase one’ of its response to Israel’s killing of its senior commander Fouad Shukr in a strike on Beirut on 30 July. The significant escalation in tensions alongside the war in Gaza has experts renewing warnings that an all-out regional war is possible.