This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Joe Lynamon in the early hours of Friday the 7th of April. These are our main stories.

Israel has blamed the Palestinian group Hamas for the intense rocket bombardment from across

the Lebanese border. The Israeli military then carried out retaliatory attacks on Gaza.

A White House report says little more could have been done to prevent the Taliban takeover

of Afghanistan but that evacuations should have started earlier.

And French riot police have again clashed with protesters opposed to the government's pension reforms.

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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Thursday evening after a security

cabinet meeting that Israel's enemies would pay a price for aggression after a major rocket

attack from southern Lebanon.

I made it very clear that our enemy shouldn't test us. We're calling to restore calm,

and we will act against the extremists the resort to violence.

As for the aggression against us from the different front, we will hit our enemy,

and they will pay a price for every act of aggression.

And a short time after Benjamin Netanyahu gave that television address,

Israel replied to the more than 30 rockets that had been fired from Lebanon.

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