In a message on its official Telegram channel, the Israeli army said that its air force targeted the locations of Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure in the Hula area of southern Lebanon.
It was also stated that earlier in the Upper Galilee, a certain number of missiles were identified that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory, reports the Guardian.
"Some of the missiles were intercepted and the rest fell in open areas. There were no reports of injuries," the Israeli army said.
Al Jazeera reports that according to medical sources who spoke to the network, the number of people killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn now stands at 21.
Benjamin Netanyahu's government has banned Al Jazeera from operating inside Israel, and the government has initiated the process of revoking the accreditation of all Al Jazeera journalists living there, the Guardian reports.
Polio vaccination in Gaza has covered 90 percent of children so far, the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday, adding that the next step is to ensure that hundreds of thousands of children receive a second dose at the end of the month.
The campaign to vaccinate 640.000 children in Gaza under the age of 10 against polio, which began on September 1, has posed major challenges for UNRWA and its partners due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Reuters reports.
The campaign follows confirmation by the World Health Organization last month that a baby was partially paralyzed by the polio virus type 2, the first such case in the Palestinian territories in 25 years.
More than 446.000 Palestinian children in central and southern Gaza were vaccinated earlier this month, before a campaign to vaccinate the last 10 children in northern Gaza began on September 200.000, despite access restrictions, evacuation orders and fuel shortages.
The first phase of the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has been successfully completed, UNRWA head Filipe Lazarini said, adding that 90 percent of children in the territory have received their first dose.
"The parties to the conflict have mostly respected the various necessary 'humanitarian pauses', which shows that when there is political will, aid can be provided without interruption. Our next challenge is to secure a second dose for children at the end of September," he wrote on the X platform.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the window for a diplomatic solution to the conflict with the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon is closing.
Galant made the comments as White House special envoy Amos Hochstein is visiting Israel to discuss the crisis on the northern border, where Israeli troops have been exchanging rocket fire with Hezbollah forces for months, Reuters reports.
"The possibility of reaching a tentative agreement on the northern front is running out," Galant told Austin during a telephone conversation, according to a statement from his office.
As long as Hezbollah continues to tie itself to the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been deployed for nearly a year, "the direction is clear," he added.
Hochstein's visit, during which he will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, comes amid efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis, which has forced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border to flee their homes.
Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41.226 Palestinians and wounded 95.413 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian health ministry said Monday.
Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 people in the Gaza Strip, including five women and four children.
An early morning attack on Monday leveled a house in a built-up part of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing a total of 10 people.
Four of the deceased were women, and two were children, reports AP.
The medical facility in Gaza, Avda Hospital, received the bodies, confirmed the number of dead and stated that 13 more people were wounded.
Hospital records show that the deceased included a mother, her child and her five siblings.
Another attack on a house in Gaza killed six people, including a woman and two children, according to the Hamas-run Civil Protection Service.
Israel says it only targets militants and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas.
A senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse that new generations of fighters had been recruited following the Oct. 7 attack, less than a week after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant told reporters that Hamas no longer existed as a military formation in Gaza.
Osama Hamdan claimed during an interview in Istanbul that the militant group has a great ability to continue fighting. "There were martyrs and there were victims... but in return experience was accumulated and new generations were recruited into the resistance movement," he said.
Last Sunday, Galant said that Hamas' military capabilities had been severely weakened after more than 11 months of war. At least 41.206 Palestinians have been killed and 95.337 others wounded in Israel's military offensive in Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said on Sunday. The war began with Hamas attacks on southern Israel that killed 1.200 people and took 250 hostages.
Hamdan also said the first ballistic attack on Israel by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Sunday showed the limitations of Israel's ability to defend itself, including its much-vaunted air defense system.
"It is a message to the entire region that Israel is not an inviolable entity. Even Israel's capabilities have limits," Hamdan said.
The Israeli military is investigating whether the fire near Kfar Daniel, in central Israel, was the result of falling fragments caused by interceptor rockets fired at the missile, or whether it successfully penetrated Israeli air defenses, as the Houthis claim.
"This morning, the Houthis fired a surface-to-surface missile from Yemen into our territory. They should already know that we pay a high price for any attempt to hurt us," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
On the other hand, Israel allegedly recruits asylum seekers from Africa to participate in military operations in Gaza in exchange for residency rights. This is stated in a report by the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, which is based on the testimony of asylum seekers and defense officials, who spoke off the record. According to them, the Israeli security organization is offering African asylum seekers who contribute to the war effort in Gaza help in obtaining permanent status in Israel, the Guardian reports.
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