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American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with Defense Minister Gallant and informed him that he had ordered the two American aircraft carriers and their aid ships to remain in the Middle East at this time to help defend Israel

Hamas: US talk of imminent ceasefire agreement is false and serves electoral purposes

Renewed artillery shelling towards Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City

A young man was injured by Israeli drone fire in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip

Aircraft bombed the house of the Akhlil family in the Al-Mashahra area in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

EU foreign policy chief: Situation in Middle East has reached critical level of danger

An Israeli airstrike targets a house in Al-Mashahra Street, east of Gaza City

Israel Defense Minister says "we are at strategic crossroads", which need to be used for reaching to hostages deal and solving the situation in the northern border

Saudi Foreign Minister @FaisalbinFarhan has in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart @araghchi discussed the latest developments in Gaza as well as enhancement of bilateral relations between Tehran and Riyadh, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said

Nasrallah: We will evaluate the results of our operation to see whether our response today to the assassination of Fouad Shukr was sufficient or not

Hassan Nasrallah: We have strategic missiles that we have no intention of using, but we may use them in the future

Israeli troops shot dead at least one Palestinian who allegedly attempted to ram his vehicle into army posts at the Ariel Junction in the West Bank, the Israeli army says

Hassan Nasrallah: We had no intention of targeting Tel Aviv or its Ministry of Defense

Nasrallah: We launched drones from the Beqaa Valley during our attack

Nasrallah: Hezbollah's aim was to keep the Iron Dome preoccupied by launching 300 katyusha rockets. This would allow Hezbollah to attack targets

Lebanese Hezbollah leader: We targeted a number of sites and barracks in northern Israel

Hezbollah secretary Nasrallah in a speech: Israel struck our drone sites and missile platforms half an hour before they were launched

Hassan Nasrallah: Our attack on Israel targeted a unit responsible for assassinations 110 km from the Lebanese border

We did not target civilians so that they (Israel) would not hit Lebanese civilians. We took care to hit military and intelligence targets. We targeted deep inside Israel. We chose targets deep inside Tel Aviv. We targeted the Glilot base, - Nasrallah

This (Glilot base) is the most important base of Israeli military intelligence. It is important for espionage and other activities. Assassinations in our region are managed from here. - Nasrallah

Hassan Nasrallah: Our attack on Israel targeted a military intelligence base that includes a unit called 8002

Hassan Nasrallah: Our attack on Israel targeted an air force and missile base in Ain Shima

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah said that it was decided that each member of the “resistance axe” will decide how to respond to Israel. He said the internal discussion in the axe led to a delay in its response

Hassan Nasrallah: The main target of the attack was the Israeli intelligence military base in Glilot

Israeli army Spokesman: The Chief of Staff at the end of a situation assessment: "We are determined to change the security situation in the North, so that the residents of the North can return to their homes safely"; The Chief of Staff, Major General Herzi Halevi, has now completed a situation assessment in Kirya with members of the General Staff Forum The Chief of Staff says: "This morning we thwarted a large-scale shooting attack by Hezbollah. We are very determined and will continue to do everything we can to protect the citizens of Israel everywhere"

Gallant: "War with Hezbollah - in the distant future"

Nasrallah: name for today's major military operation "Operation Arbain" to mark the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Karbala

An Israeli air strike east of Deir al-Balah city in central Gaza Strip

Saraya Al-Quds: We bombed the Abu Matbeq military site east of Al-Maghazi camp with a number of mortar shells

Clashes erupt between young men and Israeli security forces in the Al-Dhobat neighborhood west of Beit Furik town, east of Nablus

An Israeli soldier aboard a Navy vessel was killed and two others were hurt amid this morning’s Hezbollah attack on northern Israel. The slain sailor is named as Petty Officer First Class David Moshe Ben Shitrit, 21, of the Navy's 914th Patrol Squadron, from Geva Binyamin-Adam. The other two soldiers are listed in moderate and light condition. According to an initial IDF probe, the sailors on a Dvora-class patrol boat off the coast of northern Israel were hit by shrapnel from an Iron Dome interceptor missile, as at least two Hezbollah drones flew over the area.

Two dead in the bombing of Al-Bayouk neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip

Casualties as a result of Israeli shelling targeting a group of citizens in the vicinity of Salah al-Din Mosque in al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Wounded in shelling on Majdal Zun town, south Lebanon

The Israeli army is calling on Palestinians in a small section of the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah to evacuate.Colonel Avichay Adraee, the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesman, publishes a map of zone that needs to be evacuated.

Palestinian Health: A young man died of his wounds after being shot yesterday near the city of Jenin, north of the West Bank

An Israeli raid on the vicinity of Al-Qastal Towers, east of Deir al-Balah city, in the central Gaza Strip.

Intensive Israeli artillery shelling on the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City

Artillery renews shelling of the eastern line area in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip

Artillery shelling targets the area between the towns of Abasan al-Kabira and Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

An Israeli civilian vehicle was damaged after being stoned near the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit

Hezbollah official: We worked to ensure that the response to Shukr's killing by Israel would not lead to the outbreak of a comprehensive war

Israel PM Netanyahu says Hezbollah and Iran should know that the strikes today "are not end of the story" in changing the situation in the North

Artillery shelling northwest of Rafah city

Israeli artillery shelling of Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City

Israeli vessel was damaged by interceptor missile

Two dead and a number of injuries as a result of the bombing of a house in Al-Sikka Street in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City

Hezbollah confirms killing of two members in Israeli raid on Lebanese town of al-Tiri

269 settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque today, under the protection of the security forces.

4 dead in a raid targeting a car in Rafah

Israel army clarifies: Hezbollah has planned to launch hundreds of rockets to the north of the country and drones to Tel Aviv area. In its preemptive strikes, it took down hundreds of launchers, which can fire thousands of rockets. Some of them were planned to be used in the future

Artillery targets a site it bombed this morning in the town of Alma al-Shaab, south Lebanon

Air force carries out a raid on a house in Abasan al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis

Israeli army spokesman: "We thwarted most of the attack that Hezbollah planned and intercepted most of the threats that were launched against the territory of the State of Israel."

Israeli artillery shelling targets Al-Mahta and Al-Satr Al-Sharqi neighborhoods in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip

Israeli delegation arrives in Cairo to participate in Gaza talks

Israeli army: Paratroopers brigade soldier killed in battles in southern Gaza Strip

Medical sources to Al Jazeera: 19 dead as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today

Israeli army Broadcasting Authority: No military bases or strategic targets in central Israel were damaged

Air France cancels flights to Tel Aviv and Beirut until at least Monday

Violent Israeli artillery shelling targets Al-Zeitoun neighborhood

The Israeli army Home Front Command has lifted restrictions issued this morning on the area from Tel Aviv and northward. Restrictions remain in communities along the Lebanon border and in the Golan Heights

British government: There is a real danger facing the region and we hope it will not develop into a regional war

Wider “preemptive attacks” by Israel are expected across Lebanon, western military sources telling

Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati: What is required first is to stop the Israeli attack and implement UN Resolution 1701

Netanyahu instructs Likud ministers and MKs to "not make statements about recent security incidents"

Israeli artillery shelling targeted the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City

Egypt warns of the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon after Israel-Hezbollah escalation, and stresses the importance of preserving Lebanon’s "stability and sovereignty and sparing it the dangers of the region slipping into a state of comprehensive instability"

Seven Israeli raids target the outskirts of Wadi Zebqin in southern Lebanon

Israeli government issued a series of new censorship regulations for media that includes the damage caused by rocket attacks to “strategic national infrastructure or to military bases.” Reporters need to refer them to the media office before reporting on them to avoid causing any “harm to Israeli forces on the ground”. “This morning attacks by Hezbollah has the potential to escalate into a widespread, multi-front conflict.” The decree warns

Artillery shelling by boats west of Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip

UN on Lebanon-Israel border tensions: We will continue our contacts to strongly urge everyone to de-escalate

UN: Developments on Lebanese-Israeli border are worrying, we call on all parties to cease fire

Israel navy intercepted several Hezbollah drones overnight, as it seems that it tried to repeat the Houthis success in their attack on Tel Aviv last month, which came from the sea

Egyptian Foreign Ministry: We are following with great concern the escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli front

Airstrike targets Mays al-Jabal town in southern Lebanon

In the last hour, the Israeli army says it has continued to strike Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon. A Hezbollah cell spotted in Khiam was also targeted in a drone strike, the military adds. Hezbollah announced that a member of the allied Amal Movement was killed

An Israeli drone fell this morning in the town of Ain Tanta in the Akkar region, northern Lebanon.

Artillery shelling continues on the town of Al-Zana, north of Abasan Al-Jadida, in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli raids target the towns of Markaba and Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon

Lebanese Agency: Israeli drone falls in Akkar, northern Lebanon

The government ministers were asked to arrive at 14:00 at Kirya in Tel Aviv for a cabinet meeting

Lebanese media report a series of Israeli airstrikes in the southern Lebanon towns of Zibqin, Tayr Harfa, and Jebbayn.

Air force launches raid on Al-Jalaa Street in central Gaza

A series of Israeli raids on the town of Naqoura, southern Lebanon

Channel 12 Israel: The Israeli army continues to attack launch pads in Lebanon

Air force carries out a series of raids in the Khallet Omar area on the outskirts of the town of Zebqin, south Lebanon

Israeli raids on the outskirts of the town of Aita al-Shaab, southern Lebanon

Alhurra correspondent: The Israeli army expands its ground incursion into the Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City

6 dead and a number of wounded in the Israeli bombing of Deir al-Balah

Lebanese Prime Minister calls for ministerial emergency committee to meet to discuss developments in escalation in the south

Israeli security forces arrest 11 Palestinians in the West Bank

Artillery targets the eastern line area in Khan Yunis city

Intensive artillery shelling targets the eastern areas of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip

Israeli warplanes fly over border towns in Lebanon

Israeli artillery shelling of a house belonging to the Ayyad family in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Israeli aircraft target the vicinity of the prisoners' towers north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip

A drone drops bombs in the vicinity of the electricity company, northeast of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip

Israeli official: Despite the escalation with Lebanon, the negotiation summit in Cairo regarding the Gaza hostage deal will take place today as planned. The Israeli negotiations team - Mossad director, Shin Bet chief and Israeli army general Nitzan Alon are expected to travel to Cairo later today for a meeting with CIA director Bill Burns, Qatari Prime Minister and Egyptian intelligence chief

Two dead in an Israeli raid on the town of Al-Tayri