Clashes erupted Sunday evening in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, as local police tried to disperse protesters who were marching toward the US consulate in the city, mourning the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, CNN reports.
Videos on social media showed police firing tear gas and warning shots, while demonstrators threw rocks and tried to scale barriers blocking access to the US consulate.
The protests were led by Majlis Vahdat-e-Muslimin, a Pakistani Shia political organization that told CNN their protests across the country were peaceful.
According to a statement from the Karachi police, the demonstrators tried to move outside the designated protest area and resorted to stone pelting and rioting.
A special rally was also held in the capital Islamabad, where around 4.000 people gathered to protest the Israeli killing of Nasrallah.
Pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement late Sunday, condemning the killing as a reckless act and a major escalation in an already volatile region.
US President Joe Biden said that he will talk to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that he believes that a full-scale war in the Middle East must be avoided.
"It has to be avoided. We really have to avoid it," Biden told reporters as he boarded Air Force One to return to Washington.
The president's remarks come after Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday, the AP reported. He did not say when he plans to speak with Netanyahu.
At least 53 people were killed and 100 injured in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in Lebanon on Sunday, according to the latest figures from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, CNN reports.
Houthi-run media reports that four people have been killed and at least 45 injured in Israel's latest attacks on Yemen, reports CNN.
Among the dead are a doorman and three engineers, reports Al-Masirah television, which is controlled by the Houthis.
Rescue teams are searching the ruins for missing persons.
At least 45 people were killed and 76 injured in Israeli air strikes on two different areas in Lebanon on Sunday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, CNN reports.
In the southern Lebanese village of Ain al-Delb, the ministry said at least 24 people were killed and 29 others injured.
At least 21 people were killed and 47 others were injured in the Baalbek-Hermel region of eastern Lebanon, in the Bekaa Valley, the ministry said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bringing a former rival, Gideon Sar, into the government as a minister without portfolio, CNN reports.
Analysts say the move is intended to strengthen his domestic political base.
Netanyahu said during the press conference that unity is important for achieving the country's war goals.
Before Israel's war with Hezbollah escalated in Lebanon, Netanyahu planned to remove Defense Minister Yoav Galant and promote Sara to the position.
Sar has little experience in national security, and the plan has drawn widespread derision from national security heavyweights.
The bomb that Israel used to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was American-made, according to US Senator Mark Kelly, the Guardian reports.
Kelly, chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee's air power subcommittee, told NBC that Israel had used a 84-pound (2.000-kilogram) Mark 900 bomb.
"We are seeing an increasing use of guided munitions, JDAMs, and we continue to provide those weapons," Kelly said, Reuters reports.
"That 900-kilogram bomb that was used was a Mark 84 bomb, which was used to eliminate Nasrallah," he added.
The Israeli military has not commented on the weapon used in the attack that killed Nasrallah and brought down at least six apartment buildings, killing several people and injuring dozens of others.
Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Galant said via the X social network that the attack on Yemen showed that no location is too far for Israel.
"I chase my enemies and overtake them, and I do not return until I have exterminated them (Psalm, chapter 18, verse 38)", wrote Galant.
"I followed the attack on the Houthis from the control room of the Air Force. The message is clear - for us, no place is too far," he added.
The Guardian comments that this attack is also a message to Iran that the Israeli Air Force is ready to attack significantly distant targets.
Senior Houta official Nasr ad-Din Amer, who also serves as the head of the Yemeni news agency Saba, said that today's Israeli attacks on Yemen were unsuccessful.
"Precautionary measures have been taken, oil tanks have been pumped in advance in the ports of Ras Issa and Hodeidah. The Zionists will not stop our operations under any circumstances, we will make them better," X posted online.
The Israeli Air Force said it carried out strikes against the "Houthi terrorist group" in Yemen, 1.800 kilometers from Israel.
"Today, dozens of Israeli Air Force aircraft - including fighter jets, aerial refueling aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft - targeted military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the Ras Issa and Hodeidah areas of Yemen. The targets included power plants and a seaport used for imports of oil, which the Houthi terrorist regime used to transfer Iranian weapons to the region, in addition to military supplies and oil. The attacks were carried out in response to recent Houthi attacks against the State of Israel," the statement said.
It added that the Israeli army is determined to continue to operate at any distance against all threats to the citizens of Israel.
The Israeli newspaper Axios reports that an Israeli official said that the attacks in Yemen were carried out in cooperation with the US Central Command.
Reports from Yemen suggest that the Israeli Air Force has carried out airstrikes on the port city of Hodeidah, the Guardian reports.
Footage posted on social media showed smoke rising from the area.
The attack came after the Iran-backed Houthis launched three ballistic missiles at Israel this month.
The Israeli military said its warplanes attacked about 45 targets near a village in southern Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the attacks were aimed at the "Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area of the village of Kafra".
Kafra is located about 100 kilometers south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Weapons depots and other infrastructure were targeted, the IDF said.
"While no one mourns the death of Nasrallah, we certainly mourn every civilian life lost," US national security spokesman John Kirby said on CNN after an Israeli strike in a densely populated Beirut neighborhood killed the Hezbollah leader. Hassan Nasrallah.
"I don't think anyone mourns the loss of Mr. Nasrallah, a known terrorist, a man with American and Israeli blood on his hands. It's a terrorist organization. He was its leader. I think people are safer without him," Kirby said.
When asked how much the cost was paid by civilians in that attack, Kirby said, "We can't quantify that right now."
"We are in contact with our Israeli colleagues in this regard. Every civilian death is a tragedy," he added.
Although he did not comment on the decision-making process in Israel, he stressed that the United States and President Joe Biden continue to insist on diplomacy and a truce.
"I think we would agree that an effort should be made to calm the situation. All-out war with Hezbollah, certainly with Iran, is not the way to achieve that. If you want to bring these people home safely and in the long term, we believe that the diplomatic route is the right way to go. ", said Kirby.
He said the United States is monitoring what Hezbollah is doing to fill the void in its leadership and continues to talk with the Israelis about what the right next steps are.
"We've made no secret of the fact that we don't necessarily look at tactical implementation the same way the Israelis do when it comes to protecting civilians," Kirby said, adding that US support for Israel remains unchanged.
Washington is by far the largest supplier of weapons to Israel.
Hezbollah has denied Israeli claims that it killed Abu Ali Rida, the commander of the Bader unit in southern Lebanon.
"There is no truth in the Zionist propaganda about the murder of the brother and fighter Abu Ali Rida, he is alive and well," the militant group said, according to the Guardian.
The Israeli army launched new attacks on Lebanon today, including in Dahiya, a southern suburb of the capital Beirut, as well as the Bekaa Valley in northeastern Lebanon.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that 14 paramedics were killed during two days of intense Israeli bombardment in the east and south of Lebanon, as well as in the capital Beirut.
"This series of attacks killed 14 paramedics in two days," the ministry said in a statement, adding that the ministry "strongly condemns the repeated attacks by the Israeli enemy on medical centers" and that "paramedics do not participate in hostilities."
Lebanon's environment minister, Nasser Yassin, said the government estimates that around 250.000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge in government-run shelters as well as informal shelters. However, he told The Associated Press that the total number is about four times higher than those directly affected and/or displaced outside the shelters.
Figures cited by Lebanon's state news agency show that more than 36.000 Syrians and 41.300 Lebanese have crossed the border into Syria since last Monday.
The Lebanese government has turned schools and other facilities into temporary shelters, but many people are sleeping on the streets and have no safe place to stay.
The Israeli military said an airstrike in Beirut killed more than 20 Hezbollah members, including the group's leader.
"More than 20 other terrorists of various ranks, who were located in an underground headquarters in Beirut under civilian buildings and directed Hezbollah's terrorist operations against the State of Israel, were also eliminated," the army said.
Some of the Hezbollah leaders the military claims have been killed include Ali Karaki, a member of Hezbollah's Jihad Council and commander of the organization's southern front; Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, head of Nasrallah's security unit, and Samir Taufik Dib, who the Israeli military claims was Nasrallah's longtime confidant and adviser.
An Israeli attack on Lebanon's Bekaa Valley today resulted in the death of a senior member of the Sunni Jama Islami group, Mohammad Dahru, two security sources told Reuters.
Hezbollah announced that today it fired rockets at the Ofek military base in the north of Israel and targeted the Israeli settlement of Sar with rocket strikes.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced this afternoon that 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon at Israel.
Initial reports in the Israeli media suggested that the target of the Israeli attack on Beirut on Sunday afternoon was Abu Ali Rida, commander of the Badr Unit, which is responsible for the second line of defense in southern Lebanon, beyond the initial border zone.
Rida was the last remaining senior Hezbollah military commander left alive, which, if reports of his death are true, would leave Hezbollah without any of its senior military leaders.
Hezbollah confirmed that Nabil Kauk, another of its senior leaders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Associated Press reports.
The Israeli military said earlier on Sunday that Kauk had been killed in an airstrike a day earlier. He is the seventh senior leader of the Lebanese militant group to be killed since September 20, including Hassan Nasrallah, who headed Hezbollah for 32 years.
A school housing displaced Palestinians in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, was hit by Israeli strikes earlier, Reuters reported. Four people were killed and several others were wounded, medical sources in Gaza said.
In another attack, three people were killed in a house in Gaza, medical sources said. Four more people were reportedly killed in three separate airstrikes in Nuseirat and Khan Yunis, in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
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