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ADVERTISEMENT As US diplomacy seeks last-minute solutions for a ceasefire in Lebanon right before the presidential elections, the Israeli army has increased its pressure against the alleged Hezbollah hideouts in southern Lebanon and Beirut. On Sunday, an IDF bulldozer demolished a watchtower of the UN peacekeeping contingent UNIFIL in Marwahin, triggering the defence ministers of the G7 to express their “concern for all the threats" to its security and renew their support to the mission “to