The international NGO Crisis Group has cautioned that escalation in the past two weeks poses “grave dangers”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The point may be approaching at which [Hezbollah] decides that only a massive response can stop Israel from carrying out more attacks that impair it further,” Crisis Group said in a report.

“While the group has been keen to avert an uncontrolled escalation, and to avoid looking like the party that turned the tit-for-tat into all-out war, it may decide that the line between what it suspects Israel is about to do and such a war is no longer meaningful.

“Absent a stronger push for a Gaza ceasefire, Washington has few cards to play beyond leaning further on Israel to take a step back in the north.”