![Hezbollah rockets made their deepest-penetration yet into Israel, as Israeli forces expanded the ground war in Lebanon.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ec21376/2147483647/strip/true/crop/200x268+0+0/resize/880x1179!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fnews%2Fimages%2F2006%2Faug%2F02%2Fmap%2Fmideast200-69557d271b683468ba5534ecc3286bd8c0cc2117.jpg)
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Jeremy Vanderknyff, NPR
About 10,000 Israeli troops are now fighting across a wide stretch of southern Lebanon in an expanding offensive.
Hezbollah struck back Wednesday with one of the heaviest rocket barrages of the three-week-old war. One Israeli was killed and one rocket struck the northern West Bank, the deepest penetration yet into Israel.
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