The recent exchange of fire between Israel and Iran represents a troubling escalation in an already volatile region. Israel’s airstrikes, targeting military installations in Iran, were a response to Tehran’s earlier missile barrage on Israel.
The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict on October 8, 2023, has reached 2,412, and the number of wounded individuals has increased to 11,285, according to a report by the Lebanese Council of Ministers.
Israeli airstrikes targeted the Ras el-Nabaa neighbourhood in central Beirut, Lebanon, killing at least 22 people and wounding 117 others, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health, as reported by Al Jazeera.
The Israeli army on Saturday killed a Hamas leader and a member of the Islamic Group in its airstrikes in Lebanon.
Israel launched a series of airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon on Saturday afternoon, prompting Hezbollah's retaliatory bombing at northern Israel, according to Lebanese military sources.
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has reached another critical juncture, with recent airstrikes in Gaza resulting in the loss of civilian lives, including children.
Israeli airstrikes hit a fuel depot in the Houthi-controlled port of Al-Hudaydah in western Yemen, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Four people, including two Hezbollah members, were killed, and five others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on villages in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told the media.
Israel's military said on Monday night that it is carrying out large-scale airstrikes in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, hours after Hamas announced the acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari proposal regarding a ceasefire in the strip.
Confirming the aerial strikes in the Khost and Paktika provinces, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement that "such incidents can have very bad consequences which will be out of Pakistan's control".
