Meanwhile in Beirut, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed "just punishment" for the two-day walkie-talkie and pager attacks, which killed more than 30, wounded thousands and was widely believed to be carried out by Israel.
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00:00Israel has launched a barrage of strikes on southern Lebanon as cross-border tensions
00:06continue to rise.
00:08The attack follows a similar assault by Hezbollah on northern Israel early on Thursday, in which
00:14Israel says two of its soldiers were killed.
00:18In a joint press conference with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas
00:23in Madrid, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called for restraint.
00:28We have been commenting on this, President Abbas and I, in Lebanon, so we have to make
00:35a new and firm call for restraint, for decoupling, for peaceful coexistence between countries,
00:44in short, for peace.
00:46The exchanges of fire come after two days of targeted explosions of hand-held devices
00:51killed dozens and injured hundreds across Lebanon and Syria.
00:57Israel's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, called the attack, which has largely been blamed
01:01on Israel, a severe blow.
01:03The enemy has crossed all the lines, all the red lines, all the rules and regulations.
01:11They have not cared for anything at all, not morally, not humanly, not legally.
01:19It comes as Israel's defence minister declared the start of a new phase of war.