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Lebanon's Hezbollah movement announced Tuesday it has chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hasan Nasrallah as leader after his death in an Israeli strike on south Beirut last month.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction "like Gaza" as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the Lebanese coast.

Netanyahu's stark warning came as the Israeli military deployed more troops and urged civilians in coastal areas to evacuate.

Israeli strikes last night targeted a Hezbollah emergency center in Beirut, resulting in the deaths of five people, according to Lebanon's health ministry and a source linked to the Lebanese Islamist group. The attack, reported by AFP, is the second to hit the center of the Lebanese capital this week.

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Rescue teams working in the devastated neighborhood of Beirut, where Hezbollah’s headquarters were located, recovered the body of the organization’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Sunday, according to a medical source and a security source who spoke to Reuters.

A second deadly wave of unprecedented explosions in the strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah left it in disarray on Thursday, hours before a major speech by its beleaguered leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The latest batch of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of a full-blown war with Israel.

A new wave of attacks has begun in the Middle East, with new explosions, this time involving walkie-talkies, reported in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and its southern suburbs. Many sources indicate that the Mossad is behind the attack. As reported, nine people are dead and over 300 are injured, many with injuries to their arms and stomachs.

Reports indicate that three people have been killed and hundreds injured.

According to Reuters, citing eyewitnesses and security sources, communication devices, specifically walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, exploded in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The explosions, which were of limited strength according to international media, occurred at different locations in the suburbs.

Lebanese Hezbollah militant leader Samir Qantar was killed in an Israeli air strike in Damascus early on Dec. 20, the Lebanese group and Syrian government sources said.

Israel welcomed his death, saying he had been preparing attacks on it from Syrian soil, but stopped short of confirming responsibility for the strike that killed him. 

Turkey has "strongly condemned" a twin bombing by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that claimed the lives of 43 people in South Beirut, while pledging to continue its support for the people and the state of Lebanon for maintaining peace, stability and security in the volatile country.