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An explosion in southern Lebanon last week destroyed what is believed to have been a Hezbollah weapons depot. This latest in a series of mysterious “accidents” in Hezbollah-controlled precincts proved, as one Israeli official wryly remarked, that those who “sleep with rockets and amass large stockpiles of weapons are in a very unsafe place.” With the Party of God’s overland supply route through Syria choked off by the 22-month-long uprising against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and Israel virtually in total control of the maritime route, Hezbollah’s stockpile is being systematically degraded.Yet the arsenal of Iran’s other regional proxy force, Hamas,...

GAZA (Reuters) - An explosion tore through the home of a senior Hamas militant in Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding him and about a dozen other Palestinians, medics said. The cause of the explosion in the home of Ahmed al-Jabari, a senior commander in the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigade, Hamas's armed wing, was not immediately known. The Israeli army, which has killed dozens of members of Hamas and other militant groups in so-called targeted attacks since the start of a Palestinian uprising nearly four years ago, had no immediate comment. Medics said four people were...