Striking Beirut shatters the geographic containment that previously insulated the capital from the collapsing ceasefire. This physical shift into the sovereign center forces the formal Lebanese government—not just Hezbollah—to absorb the immediate political and infrastructural costs, transforming a factional dispute into a state-level crisis. The critical indicator to watch is whether Hezbollah's reciprocal targeting now expands to Israeli urban centers in response. Read the full analysis to understand how this single strike rewrites the region's rules of engagement.
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