Death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon Wednesday rises to 203: health ministry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned they would "fulfil our duty and deliver a response" if Israel did not cease its strikes, while Hizbollah said it had a "right" to respond.
38% : More than 1,700 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel launched airstrikes and a ground invasion last month, local officials said.
37% : But the deal's fractures emerged quickly on Wednesday as Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on neighboring Lebanon -- including in densely packed central Beirut -- since the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah joined the war in early March.
37% : Israel has said its battle against the Lebanese group was not part of the ceasefire, an argument echoed by US Vice President JD Vance, days before he is due to lead talks with Tehran in Pakistan.
33% : In Lebanon, where UN rights chief Volker Turk called the scale of killing "horrific", strikes across the capital Beirut without warning triggered scenes of horror and panic.
32% : Hours later, Hizbollah said it had fired rockets towards Israel in response to its "violation" of the US-Iran truce, which was agreed to late Tuesday.

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