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Syria accuses Israel after strikes kill more than 40 near Aleppo

At least 42 people have been killed in air strikes in north-west Syria, reports say. Syria's defence ministry said Israeli planes targeted several sites in the Aleppo countryside at 01:45 on Friday (22:45 GMT Thursday). A UK-based monitoring group said Hezbollah militants and Syrian soldiers died as a Hezbollah arms store was hit. Hours later, Israel's military said it had killed a senior Hezbollah figure in an air strike in Lebanon. Ali Abed Akhsan Naim was a deputy commander of the group's missiles and rockets unit, the Israel Defense Forces said, and was responsible for conducting and planning attacks on Israeli civilians. Video released online by Israel showed a moving vehicle, which he was said to be travelling in, exploding after being struck by a missile.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) - which monitors events in Syria from the UK - said the Aleppo attack had led to the highest number of dead (36) among Syrian forces in a single such "Israeli