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The Israeli air force carried out an airstrike on the Shaara plains, located east of Janta, on the Lebanese-Syrian border, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the Bekaa.
Israeli aircraft are flying at very low altitudes over the Hermel region and the Lebanese-Syrian border, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the Bekaa.
The Israeli army announced that it carried out a strike on "a military site used to store weapons that belonged to the fallen Syrian regime" in the Qardaha region in western Syria.
"Due to the latest developments, we have decided to attack infrastructure inside this site. We continue to monitor the situation on the Syrian front and will take the necessary measures to protect the residents of Israel," Avichay Adraee, an Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli army, said on X.
Is Israel planning on going to war with Syria?
The Israeli army has carried out an attack on the port city of Tartus in Syria, Israeli public radio Kan reports, citing "preliminary" information.
An Israeli government spokesperson said Hamas had "enough food to fuel an obesity epidemic" a day after Israel decided to suspend humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
"Hamas has stockpiled months and months of supplies," spokesperson David Mencer told a news conference in Jerusalem.
"They have enough food to feed an obesity epidemic, but the only people you see getting fat are Hamas members ... No one is going hungry in Hamas," he added, as the U.N. called on Israel on Sunday to immediately restore the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was "time to give the people of Gaza the freedom to leave" after praising U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza as a "courageous vision."
With the war in Gaza, "the rich have left, but the poor have remained, and are subject to the authority of Hamas which exploits them for its own ends," Netanyahu said.
"It is time to give the people of Gaza a real choice, it is time to give them the freedom to leave," he added without elaborating.
A debate in the Israeli Knesset on the creation of a committee of inquiry into the events of Oct. 7 was postponed after a clash between security forces and bereaved families and relatives of hostages in Gaza. Tensions flared when several families were prevented by security from attending the debate.
Former Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for the "mass starvation" of Hamas and its supporters in Gaza, saying the war must resume with "overwhelming force."
"For this to happen, Gaza must go through hell. And this hell also includes the bombing of all the aid depots controlled by Hamas," he told reporters, according to the Times of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Hamas with consequences the Palestinian movement "cannot imagine" if it does not release Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
"I say to Hamas: If you do not release our hostages, there will be consequences that you cannot imagine," Netanyahu said at the podium of the Knesset in Jerusalem, during a particularly rowdy session, including by relatives of hostages who jeered him before being evacuated by security agents, while the future of the truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas seems uncertain.
Heavy machine gun fire from the Israeli site of Malkieh was directed towards Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil), residents reported to L'Orient Today's correspondent.
UNIFIL provided an update on its activities in southern Lebanon following the cease-fire agreement that ended the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
"For more than a year of conflict, our peacekeepers have maintained their presence at all our positions in order to objectively monitor and report on events on the ground," the U.N. peacekeeping force said in a statement.
"We are now supporting the Lebanese army in its redeployment to the south, following the withdrawal of the Israeli army from most areas of southern Lebanon. This process is an essential step towards long-term stability," it added.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned Israel's decision to block humanitarian aid to Gaza.
"The Israeli government's denial of access to essential supplies to the Palestinian people is a flagrant violation of international law," he said in a statement. "This decision, which aims to collectively punish the Palestinian people, also jeopardizes efforts to establish a lasting ceasefire in Gaza."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a plan of "maximum pressure" on Hamas to force it to accept an extension of the Gaza truce under conditions set by Israel, Israeli media reported Monday.
According to Kan, Israel's public broadcaster, Netanyahu wants to extend the first phase of the ceasefire agreement by at least a week, until the arrival in the region of the American envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
A knife attack, described as a "terrorist" act, left one dead and four injured Monday in Haifa, the first deadly attack in Israel since the start of the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip.
The attack, which killed the perpetrator, took place at a bus station in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Haifa, the largest city in northern Israel. Police said the attacker, in an extremely rare occurrence, was a Druze Israeli who had recently returned from abroad.
Gaza
The British government called for humanitarian aid to be allowed “into Gaza,” following Israel's blockade, and again called for “a lasting cease-fire,” reported AFP.
“We have been clear that humanitarian aid must get into Gaza, and therefore it must not be blocked,” said a British government spokesman. Israel on Sunday blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza until further notice after disagreements with Hamas over the terms of the continuing cease-fire.
Gaza
Hamas accused Israel of working for a “collapse” of the truce agreement in Gaza, now at an impasse.
“The violations of the agreement during the first phase prove beyond doubt that the occupation government wanted the agreement to collapse,” said Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, in a video statement.
Hamas and Israel are at an impasse as the first phase of the cease-fire agreement between them expired. While Hamas is calling to move onto the second phase, which would lead to a permanent cessation of hostilities, Israel is calling for the extension of the first phase.
Occupied-West Bank
Khaled Abdullah, a 40-year-old from Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank, has died in Israel’s Megiddo Prison, reports the Palestinian Prisoners Society.
Abdullah, whose family said he had no health problems prior to his arrest, had been held under administrative detention since Nov. 9, 2023. He had a wife and four children.
He is the 61st Palestinian to die in Israeli custody since the war on Gaza began, according to the Prisoners Society, which accused Israel of upholding a “system of brutality.”
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has arrived in Saudi Arabia for his first foreign visit, according to AFP.
South Lebanon
The Marjayoun government hospital has launched an appeal for blood donations (O+) after a Kfar Kila resident was wounded by Israeli machine-gun fire, reports our correspondent in the South.
Occupied-West Bank
Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that on Sunday night, “a three-month-old infant suffocated from the tear gas” that was fired by the Israeli soldiers at the Jenin refugee camp.
Wafa also reported that all entrances to the camp have been blocked by “dirt mounds, forcing citizens attempting to reach their homes to turn back.”
South Lebanon
According to residents, an Israeli patrol entered from its positions this morning the border town of Abbasieh (Marjayoun) in Lebanese territory. They interrogated a farmer who was working on his land, before releasing him, local residents told L'Orient Today.
South Lebanon
Israeli forces fired machine guns at the outskirts of Kfar Kila (Marjayoun), injuring one civilian, local residents reported.
Gaza
The Israeli army announced that it had struck a “ship” off the coast of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Haifa knife attack
Israeli police said that the Haifa attacker was Israeli Druze, a resident of Shfaram and had returned to Israel last week.
South Lebanon
An Israeli drone is flying over the town of al-Mansouri (Sour) and broadcasting unclear words, local residents told L'Orient Today.
South Lebanon
An Israeli aircraft flying over the town of Azziah, south of Sour, is broadcasting threats that if the Lebanese Army does not intervene to deter Hezbollah, Israel will take action, local residents reported.
Lebanon
Israeli drones are flying at a low altitude over the eastern mountain range in the Bekaa, our correspondent in the region noted. Israeli drones are also conducting circular flights over villages east of Baalbek.
Both incidents are breaches of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah.
Germany's Ambassador to Israel condemned the "cowardly terrorist attack" in Haifa which left one man dead and four wounded on Monday. "People on both sides must stand against such indefensible crimes," he said.
Lebanon
Israeli drones are flying at low altitudes over several regions in Lebanon, including western Bekaa and Baalbeck in the Bekaa district, and Mansouri in the Sour district, according to our correspondents.
Israel
One person was killed in the Haifa knife attack, Israeli emergency services announced, quoted by AFP.
Israel
According to the Israeli emergency services, quoted by AFP, the knife attack in Haifa left five people injured, one of them in critical condition.
Gaza
Two Palestinians have been killed by drone fire in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, rescue workers and the Hamas press office reported, as quoted by Reuters.
Israel
A knife attack in Haifa left multiple people injured, AFP reported.
Israel / United States
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for authorizing the delivery of weapons to Israel, saying they would help "finish the job against the Iranian axis."
"Trump is the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House," Netanyahu said in a video message in English, adding that Trump "proved it by sending us the ammunition that was blocked" by his predecessor, Joe Biden. "This provides Israel with the tools it needs to finish the job against the Iranian axis of terrorism," he said.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that he had signed off on about $4 billion in military aid to Israel, noting that a partial arms embargo imposed by Biden had been lifted.
Gaza cease-fire
An Arab ministerial meeting is scheduled for Monday in Cairo, followed by an Arab summit dedicated to discuss the situation in Gaza.
Gaza
Qatar, a mediator in the Gaza cease-fire, accused Israel of a "blatant violation" of the truce agreement.
"Qatar strongly condemns the Israeli occupation government's decision to halt the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip," which constitutes "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement and international humanitarian law," the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that it rejects "the use of starvation as a weapon of war."
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