Five people were wounded in the area of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv in a rocket attack by the Lebanese Hezbollah on the center of Israel, the Israeli emergency services announced.
As stated, all the wounded were hit by shrapnel and one woman is in a serious condition, Israeli media reported.
Israel's military said the rocket was fired from Lebanon and intercepted by anti-missile defenses.
Fragments of the intercepted rocket fell between two suburbs of Tel Aviv and caused fire and damage to surrounding buildings and vehicles.
Missile warning sirens sounded in and around Tel Aviv.
Earlier this evening, at least five people were killed and 24 wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a densely populated residential area of Beirut, near government and embassy buildings, according to the latest data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which, he said, is facing a humanitarian disaster.
In his speech at the G20 leaders' summit in Rio de Janeiro, he warned of the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, which is under constant Israeli attacks.
"About 96 percent of the population of Gaza, or more than two million people, do not have access to healthy food and water," Erdogan said, Anadolia reports.
He emphasized that "the risk of hunger in Gaza has reached the level of catastrophe according to international classifications".
Erdogan stated that Turkey sent more than 86 thousand tons of aid to Gaza, and that their aid to Lebanon exceeded 1,3 thousand tons.
Brazilian President Luis Iñásio Lula da Silva opened the G20 leaders' summit in Rio de Janeiro today and warned of growing tensions and armed conflicts in the world and launched an initiative to end world hunger.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, less than two weeks after the presidential elections in the United States of America (USA), criticized the policy and reasoning of the administration of American President Joseph Biden in the key moments of the war with Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah.
Netanyahu said that the US suggested not to enter Gaza and that they viewed with reservations the entry of the Israeli army into Gaza City, Khan Yunis, and especially Rafah, in the south of that territory.
"President Biden told me we'd be on our own if we went there. He also said he would stop shipments of important weapons to us. And he did. A few days later (US Secretary of State Anthony) Blinken showed up and repeated the same things I I told him that we will fight with our nails," Netanyahu said at the plenary session of the Israeli parliament (Knesset).
The US withheld one shipment of about 900 kilograms of bombs, but allowed other shipments of weapons to continue.
The Israeli leader also criticized the positions of the US after the Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel.
"Again, our friend told us that there is no need to respond. And I said that sitting and not reacting is not acceptable. And we responded," Netanyahu said.
He explained that ensuring security in the north of Israel requires systematic action against possible Hezbollah attacks, and that it is not just a reaction, but an effort to prevent the pro-Iranian organization from building its power.
Netanyahu's speech was repeatedly interrupted by opposition MPs and protesters on the balcony, who brought banners with photographs of hostages held in Gaza. Some of them were taken out of the hall by the guards.
Netanyahu also said that he discussed with associates and members of the security forces last night until three in the morning how to get the hostages back home.
He added that the focus now is to undermine Hamas' ability to rule Gaza, which he has been talking about for months, Israeli media reported.
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Four people were wounded today after a main street in a Tel Aviv suburb was hit by shrapnel after the Israeli military intercepted a missile fired from Lebanon over central Israel, emergency services said, Reuters reported.
In today's Israeli air attack on the center of Beirut, five people were killed, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced, reports Reuters.
The agency said Israel targeted Lebanon's capital for a second straight day as it stepped up its campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.
Smoke rises in the densely populated Zukak al-Blat neighborhood, near the central district of Beirut, where the Lebanese government is based.
Another 24 people were wounded, the ministry said.
Israel stepped up its bombardment in and around the Lebanese capital last week, an escalation that coincided with signs of a move in diplomacy led by the United States of America (US) to reach a ceasefire.
US envoy Amos Hochstein was expected in Beirut as soon as talks resumed, a US source told Reuters.
Lebanese officials and local media reported that Beirut had submitted a written response to the US ceasefire proposal delivered last Sunday to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, whom Hezbollah is backing to negotiate.
Israel has dealt major blows to Hezbollah since late September, killing its leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, airstriking large areas of Lebanon and sending troops into southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at Israel.
Missile warning sirens sounded across Tel Aviv and much of central Israel on Monday night.
Rescuers reported damage in the suburbs of Tel Aviv caused by a rocket or shrapnel from an interceptor.
Earlier, a woman was killed when a rocket hit a building in Shfaram, in the north, Israel's emergency services said.
The Israeli military said that about five missiles were fired from Lebanon.
Since Israel launched its offensive in September, the bulk of its airstrikes in the Beirut area have targeted Hezbollah strongholds in the southern suburbs.
But on Sunday, Israel struck targets inside Beirut city limits for the first time in more than five weeks, killing ten people in two separate attacks, including a senior Hezbollah media official.
Israel launched the offensive after nearly a year of cross-border hostilities with Hezbollah. Its stated goal is to destroy Hezbollah's capabilities and secure the return of tens of thousands of Israelis who have been evacuated from the north by rockets fired by Hezbollah in solidarity with its ally Hamas since the Gaza war began more than a year ago.
Israel's campaign has displaced more than a million people in Lebanon in the past eight weeks.
World powers say the ceasefire must be based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Those conditions require Hezbollah to move weapons and fighters north of the Litani River, about 30 km north of the Israeli border.
At least four people were killed tonight in an Israeli attack on a densely populated neighborhood in central Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced.
The press release added that 18 people were wounded, reported Agence France-Presse.
The Israeli airstrike hit a densely populated residential area of the Lebanese capital near the UN headquarters, the Parliament, the Prime Minister's office and several embassies, including the EU.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that two rockets hit the Zukak al-Blat neighborhood in Beirut.
The attack was preceded by reports that the US envoy had postponed tomorrow's visit to Beirut, and it was planned to discuss a ceasefire.
Ambulance sirens could be heard in that part of town, and an Associated Press reporter said there were many casualties on the streets.
It was not immediately clear what the target of the attack was, and the Israeli army did not issue a prior warning.
Many parts of central Beirut, including Zokak al-Blat, became a refuge for many displaced by the conflict in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Tonight, a place near Husainija, a Shiite mosque, was also attacked.
Central Beirut was targeted for the second day in a row after a break of more than a month.
An Israeli airstrike on the main water supply facility in the southern city of Tire killed two local officials and wounded two others.
Hezbollah spokesman Muhammad Afif and six other people, including a woman, were killed in an attack on the Ras al-Nab area in central Beirut on Sunday.
Later in the day, four people were killed in a separate attack on the commercial area of Mar Elias. It remained unclear what the target of the attack was. The Israeli army did not say anything.
A few minutes after the attack, Lebanon's interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced on Platform X that "all countries and those who make decisions are requested to end the bloody and devastating Israeli aggression against Lebanon and implement international resolutions, especially Resolution 1701".
That document, adopted in 2006, envisages the creation of a buffer zone in southern Lebanon and an end to hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
Full implementation of the resolution was prevented by both sides.
Hezbollah also fired dozens of rockets at Israel today.
In a rocket attack on the town of Shfaram in the north of Israel, six people were wounded, one of whom is in critical condition, and one woman cannot get out of the affected building.
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Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed 20 Palestinians, including six in attacks on tents housing displaced families, medics said, reports Reuters.
Four people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi, which has been declared a humanitarian zone, while two people were killed in temporary shelters in the southern city of Rafah, and one in a drone strike. Gaza health officials said.
In the northern town of Beit Lahia, medics reported that an Israeli missile had hit a house, killing at least two people and wounding several others. On Sunday, medics and residents said dozens of people were killed or wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a high-rise apartment building in the city.
Another airstrike on a house in Gaza City killed seven people and wounded ten, medics said. Later today, an Israeli airstrike killed four people in the Nuseirat camp in the central part of the coastal belt, they added.
Gaza's health ministry said Israeli attacks killed 24 Palestinians across the territory in the past 76 hours.
At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, relatives of Palestinians killed in an airstrike on tents housing displaced families sat next to bodies wrapped in blankets and white shrouds to say goodbye before they were carried to their graves.
The head of the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Filip Lazarini, said today that there is no alternative to the agency in the occupied Palestinian territories, since Israel decided to ban it.
"There is no plan B within the UN, because there is no other agency capable of providing the same activities," said UNRWA Commissioner-General Filipe Lazarini at a press conference in Geneva.
"If you're talking about bringing in food trucks, you'll definitely find an alternative, but the answer is no in terms of education and primary health," he explained.
In October, the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) voted to ban UNRWA from operating on Israeli soil and coordinating its activities with the Israeli authorities. Both laws will enter into force in 90 days from their adoption.
Lazarini added that the agency he leads "has not received any official notification that Israel intends to implement the ban."
He called on the international community to prevent the implementation of the laws and warned that if they are implemented, it means that UNRWA will no longer be able to operate in Gaza, to coordinate movement, resolve misunderstandings, so that the environment will be too dangerous.
Lazarini said that UNRWA employees are afraid of losing their jobs, but that there is also a real fear that any of them could be arrested.
Israeli authorities have long criticized the UN agency.
Their relations have deteriorated since the start of the Gaza war when Israel accused UNRWA employees of participating in an attack on the southern Israeli territory on October 7 last year by the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas.
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