A Lebanese security official said six rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel this evening.
According to the anonymous official, it was not immediately clear who fired the rockets from the area near the village of Klaileh.
A statement by the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) also confirmed the rocket fire and appealed to "all parties to exercise restraint at this crucial time".
Officials from the extremist pro-Iranian Hezbollah did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reports, the AP reported.
Spokesmen for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Palestinian organizations also present in Lebanon, said they had no information about the rockets.
The rockets were fired a day after three Hezbollah fighters and an Israeli military officer were killed.
Israeli media reported that rockets were fired into northern Israel for the third day in a row and that the Israeli army shelled two Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon as clashes continued in southern Israel against Hamas.
As stated, 15 rockets were fired at the western Galilee and sirens sounded in several settlements.
Four missiles were intercepted by the "Iron Dome" defense system, and the rest fell in an open area.
A little later, a guided anti-tank missile from Lebanon was fired at an armored vehicle in the north of Israel.
No soldiers were wounded.
In response, a combat helicopter attacked a third Hezbollah position.
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Israeli troops fired artillery and mortar shells towards Syria today after numerous shells fired from Syria fell on open areas in Israeli territory, the Israeli army said, according to Reuters.
A source in southern Syria said the Palestinian faction fired three rockets at Israel.
The development is raising fears that the violence could lead to a wider war, as Israel exchanges cross-border volleys with Lebanon's Hezbollah and battles Hamas militants in Gaza, according to Reuters.
The army said its soldiers fired "in the direction of the start of the launch in Syria".
She did not give details. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Israeli forces say they successfully located - and rescued - 30 trapped people in the southern kibbutz of Ein HaShlosh late on Monday, the BBC reports.
Officials received a "distress call" around 21 p.m. local time, according to information shared by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and were able to locate the captives using coordinates before 22 p.m.
The group's whereabouts were not revealed, but after Hamas launched its offensive on Saturday, many residents are known to have fled their homes and in some cases tried to hide.
The Kremlin announced this evening that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is "more than worrying" and that there is a risk of growth and spillover to areas outside the region, Reuters reports.
"The situation is more than worrying. It has the potential to be dangerous by growing and spilling over from the current zone of the Arab-Israeli conflict," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to questions from Russian television journalists, reports the Tass agency.
Peskov is reported to have said that those looking for a solution should show political will, but they must not be "hot-headed".
Tass reported that the Kremlin is appealing to both sides to show restraint.
The Israeli army announced today that several shells were fired from Syrian territory towards Israel, and that some fell on open areas in Israeli territory, Reuters reports.
The military did not release details. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
The Israeli army responded with artillery and mortar shells.
US President Joseph Biden began the statement by calling the attacks on Israel "an act of pure evil", reports Radio Free Europe.
He called Hamas bloodthirsty, saying that the events are reminiscent of the worst crimes committed by ISIS, that is, the so-called militant group. Islamic State, and condemned them for "more than 1.000 civilians killed. Among them at least 14 American citizens."
"Hamas does not stand up for the Palestinian people," says Biden. "They used Palestinians as human shields."
"Unfortunately for the Jewish people, this is not new," he continues. "This brought to the surface painful memories" of anti-Semitism in the last century.
The US president gave examples of some of the horrific stories coming out of the region: "Parents slaughtered using their bodies to protect their children... Reports of babies being killed... Women raped and displayed as trophies".
"We stand with Israel, we stand with Israel," says Biden.
He said that Israel will have what it needs to respond to the attack.
The President of the United States of America, Joseph Biden, has expressed concern that Americans are being held hostage by Hamas, an Islamic group supported by Iran.
"There are moments in this life, and I mean that literally, when pure original evil is unleashed on this world. The people of Israel experienced one such moment this weekend," Biden said, according to Reuters.
The World Food Program (WFP) announced today that it wants to provide food aid to an additional 600.000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, reports AFP.
The Rome-based UN agency is already helping nearly 200.000 people in the Palestinian territories, but wants to launch an emergency operation to provide food aid to a total of 800.000 people, a spokesman told AFP.
WFP is asking for $17,3 million to address the "critical situation" over the next four weeks, where people are "facing dire circumstances, lacking access to food, water and basic supplies," the agency said in a statement.
WFP and the World Health Organization (WHO) have also called for the creation of a humanitarian corridor to provide aid and humanitarian assistance to Gaza, which is under Israeli siege.
The WFP said it distributed ready-to-eat food to 73.000 people on Monday together with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRVA).
In addition, WFP has begun transferring cash to 164.000 people in Gaza and the West Bank, in the form of vouchers that can be exchanged for food at local stores.
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US President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other high-ranking officials of the administration finished their conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The president announced on social media that his team spoke with Netanyahu to "receive news of the updated situation regarding the terrorist attack in Israel and to instruct on the next steps," reports the BBC.
"We contacted Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss coordination to support Israel, deter hostile actors and protect innocent people," he said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.
On that occasion, the two men commented on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, the Turkish Presidency announced.
Erdogan and Guterres discussed possible steps to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in the region, as well as Turkey's mediation efforts, according to a statement published on the X network, formerly Twitter, reports Reuters.
In the call, Erdogan said that disproportionate attacks would bring development in the region to a standstill and that the parties should act with restraint, it added.
A strike group of American warships has arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean, in order to provide Israel with air support or the option of long-range attacks if necessary, but also to strengthen the American military presence and prevent a wider regional conflict, AP reported citing an unnamed American official, reports Glas America.
The Pentagon announced that American warplanes, destroyers and war cruisers, along with the Ford aircraft carrier, will conduct naval and air operations.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that the deployment of American forces could lead to a massacre.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) today took local and Western journalists to one of the kibbutz that Hamas attacked on Saturday, where the bodies of children and babies were found, according to the Israeli media, as well as the BBC.
Journalists today visited the village of Kfar Aza, as the BBC writes, the site of a massacre committed by Hamas near the border with Gaza.
Until this morning, the fighting in the kibbutz was still going on. That is why Israeli soldiers are only now collecting the bodies of the murdered residents, this media explains.
The soldiers told the BBC's international news editor, Jeremy Bohn, that Hamas had raided houses, burning them and killing families.
According to The Times of Israel, the i24 News reporter said that the IDF commander told her that they had found the bodies of about 40 babies, some of whom had been decapitated.
As BBC editor Jeremy Bowen writes, the bodies of the victims were hidden in black bags this morning. Militants, he adds, killed entire families.
An Israeli army general has detailed what he called a "massacre" at Kibbutz Kfar Az in Israel, a site not far from the border with the Gaza Strip.
"You see babies, mothers, fathers, in their bedrooms, in their shelters and how the terrorists kill them. It's not a war, it's not a battlefield. It's a massacre," said Major General Itai Veruv, as reported by Reuters.
Israeli officials or independent international organizations on the scene did not confirm the allegations of the children being killed.
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Israel has the right to defend itself, but some of the decisions it has taken in recent days are against international law, European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell told reporters on Tuesday.
"Israel has the right to defend itself, but it must be done in accordance with international law, humanitarian law, and some decisions are contrary to international law," Borelj said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Muscat, Oman, Reuters reports. .
Israel is carrying out airstrikes on the port of Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed to CNN.
"The IDF is currently targeting targets belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas on the coast of the Gaza Strip," the statement said.
Al Jazeera reports that a volley of rockets was fired from southern Lebanon towards Israel on the third day of violence along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
A security source told the Reuters news agency that the bombing was carried out by Palestinian factions.
Another source said that the southern area from which the rockets were fired was bombed.
The Israeli army said it responded with artillery fire to rockets fired from Lebanon.
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German federal prosecutors announced today an investigation against Hamas on suspicion of the kidnapping and murder of German citizens.
As stated, "an investigation has been opened against unidentified members of the radical Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas," said a spokeswoman in the federal prosecutor's office.
The investigation was opened due to suspicion "of membership in a foreign terrorist group, hostage taking and murder," she said, AFP reported.
Dozens of foreigners and people with dual citizenship were killed or captured during an attack on Israel by Islamic extremist Hamas from the Gaza Strip that began on Saturday morning.
A foreign ministry source in Berlin said several Germans who also hold dual citizenship were abducted by Hamas, but the exact number was not given.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said today that Germany is working closely with Israel to determine how many citizens were abducted and how they could be released, AP reported.
It is standard practice for German prosecutors to open an investigation when citizens of that country are injured abroad.
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The number of French citizens killed in attacks in Israel has risen to eight, BFM television reported today, referring to French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, reports Reuters.
More than 1.800 people have died in the war between Hamas and Israel, which began early Saturday morning with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and the insertion of armed extremists through the border fence into southern Israeli territory.
The conflict is expected to escalate, according to AP.
The Israeli army said today that more than 1.000 people were killed in Israel.
In the Gaza Strip and the other Palestinian territory of the West Bank, 830 Palestinians were killed, the local authorities announced, and Israel claims that hundreds of Hamas fighters were among the dead.
Thousands of people were wounded on both sides.
The Israeli army announced this morning that it had regained control of the areas attacked by Hamas in the south and on the Gaza border, where street fighting was fought for the first time in decades. In the afternoon, however, local media reported that clashes broke out between Israeli forces and Palestinian extremists near the town of Sderot and a kibbutz.
Israeli warplanes, as stated, bombed hundreds of targets in the Rimal neighborhood, the central neighborhood in Gaza City, where Hamas ministries, universities, media organizations and aid agency offices are located last night and today.
"There is no safe place in Gaza now, decent people are being killed every day," said Hassan Jabar, a journalist, after three other Palestinian journalists were killed in bombings in the neighborhood and said he feared for his life.
On Tuesday afternoon, a barrage of rocket fire was fired at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and Tel Aviv in the central part of the country. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
A few hours after the start of the Hamas attack, a senior official of that organization, Saleh al-Aruri, said that it had planned all possibilities, including a general war, and that it was ready to suffer serious blows.
His statement suggests that Hamas expects the fighting to spread to the West Bank and perhaps to include the Lebanese Hezbollah and open a front in the north, notes AP.
However, despite occasional eruptions of violence, nothing significant has yet happened, although an exchange of fire broke out in the north of Israel. Rockets were fired from Lebanon today and the Israeli army responded with tank fire. As stated, two Hezbollah positions on the border were shelled.
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Israel said on Tuesday it had regained control of its border with Gaza, inflicting the heaviest airstrikes on the enclave in the 75-year history of the conflict with the Palestinians despite Hamas threats to execute a prisoner for each attack on residential buildings.
Israeli warplanes bombed the Gaza Strip, quarter by quarter. Buildings in the area have been razed to the ground as residents try to find shelter. Hamas fired rockets towards Ashkelon and Tel Aviv. There are no reports of casualties yet.
Israel has vowed "mighty revenge" after gunmen rampaged through its cities, leaving bodies strewn in the streets in by far the deadliest attack in the country's history.
He called in hundreds of thousands of reservists and placed the Gaza Strip, home to 2,3 million people, under a complete siege.
Israeli media reports that the number of people killed in the attacks by Hamas has risen to more than 1.000 people, mostly civilians who were killed in their homes, on the streets or at a music festival, which is more than any previous attack by Islamists in the world, except for September 11 in America. . Between 100 and 150 hostages were taken to Gaza, mostly Israelis, but there are also Americans and citizens of other countries.
At least 830 Gazans have since been killed in Israeli strikes, according to local officials, while entire districts of Gaza have been leveled. Thousands of people were wounded on both sides.
Aid organizations are calling for corridors to be established to deliver supplies to Gaza and warn that hospitals are overburdened and running out of supplies. Israel has halted the delivery of food, fuel and medicine to Gaza.
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Tehran was not involved in the attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas over the weekend, Iran's top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, but hailed what he called an "irreparable Israeli, military and intelligence defeat".
"We kiss the hands of those who planned an attack on the Zionist regime," Khamenei, wearing a Palestinian scarf, said in his first televised address since the start of the conflict, according to Reuters.
"This 'devastating earthquake' (Hamas attack) has destroyed some critical structures (in Israel) that will not be easily repaired... The actions of the Zionist regime are to blame for this disaster," Khamenei said.
Israel has long accused Iran's clerical rulers of fueling violence by supplying weapons to Hamas.
Tehran, which does not recognize Israel, provides moral and financial support to the group that controls the Gaza Strip.
Support for Palestine has been a pillar of the Islamic Republic since 1979.
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