Netanyahu cuts short New York visit to return to Israel, his office says

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will cut short his trip to New York and return to Israel on Friday, his office said in a statement, following an Israeli strike on Hezbollah's command centre in Lebanon's capital Beirut.

(Reporting by Emily Rose; editing by Mark Heinrich)