U.S. officials say Israel warned U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a call Tuesday that a military operation was going to take place in Lebanon.

This so-called equilibrium of terror is no longer holding.” For many in Lebanon, the last few days have been surreal. “We seem to be living in a Netflix series or in a dystopia,” Bitar said. “It’s unprecedented in the history of warfare in the Middle East,

The conflict - which has escalated sharply in the past week - has raged since Hezbollah opened a second front against Israel.