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The Israeli army fired flares over Aitaroun and other villages in Bint Jbeil district, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of talks to replace the head of the Shin Bet, AFP reported.

A drone launched a sound bomb shortly after 6:30 p.m. near a mosque in the northern district of the village of Mais al-Jabal (Marjeyoun), as the muezzin was calling for twilight prayers, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in south Lebanon.

Six civilians were killed by Israeli gunfire in southern Syria, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said, denouncing a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty.

The governorate of the southern province of Deraa, for its part, gave a death toll of five after Israeli tank shelling, which it said penetrated Syrian territory.

The Israeli army claimed to have carried out a strike in southern Syria in response to gunfire.

More than 21,000 people have fled the massacres in Syria to Lebanon, according to the U.N.

The NGO Save the Children reported that more than 270 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israeli bombardments resumed a week ago, according to Al-Jazeera. This figure does not include unidentifiable bodies pulverized by the strikes.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry denounced a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty following a deadly Israeli incursion into the south of the country.

In a statement, the ministry "condemned the continued Israeli aggression against Syrian territory," including "the dangerous escalation" which, it said, killed "six civilians" in the west of Daraa province, denouncing "a flagrant violation of national sovereignty."

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem will deliver a speech on Friday at 3:30 p.m. to mark Jerusalem Day, Hezbollah announced.

The party's statement said that this day was decreed on the initiative of Imam Khomeini and that it was an opportunity "to renew support for the Palestinian people and explain the roots of the Palestinian cause."

More than half a million children in Yemen are suffering from the deadliest form of malnutrition, UNICEF has warned.

The conflict in Yemen is "a crisis characterized by hunger, deprivation and, today, a worrying escalation," UNICEF representative in Yemen, Peter Hawkins, said at a press briefing.

Speaking from the capital, Sanaa, he said that "one in two children under the age of five currently suffers from acute malnutrition," including "more than 537,000 suffering from severe acute malnutrition," the most deadly form of malnutrition. It is "a terrible, life-threatening condition that is entirely preventable," Hawkin said.

The health ministry in the Gaza Strip said 792 people have been killed since Israeli bombardments resumed on the Palestinian territory a week ago, including 62 in the past 24 hours.

In a statement, the ministry reported 792 deaths and 1,663 injuries since the resumption of Israeli strikes, bringing the total death toll since the start of the war on Oct. 7, 2023, to 50,144.

The Israeli president said he was "shocked" to see that the issue of hostages held in the Gaza Strip was no longer among the country's priorities, reported AFP.

"I'm quite shocked to see how suddenly the hostage issue is no longer at the top of the priority list or the news," Isaac Herzog said in a video released by his office. He stressed the importance of continuing efforts to "bring the hostages home, every last one."

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Firefighters and passersby attempt to extinguish a burning car after a drone strike in Qaaqaiyet al-Jisr on the evening of March 24, 2025. (Photo obtained by L'Orient Today's correspondent Muntasser Abdallah)

An Israeli drone strike in Qaaqaiyet al-Jisr (Nabatieh) killed a "Hezbollah official" last night, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in south Lebanon and the Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Health.

An Israeli drone struck a car in the center of the village of Qaaqaiyet al-Jisr, causing it to catch fire. The driver, who was killed in the strike, was a Hezbollah official identified as Hassan Kamal Halawi.

The Israeli army claimed responsibility for the attack this morning, saying it killed "the commander of Hezbollah's southern front anti-tank missile unit."

"The Israeli army attacked and eliminated Hassan Kamal Halawi, the commander of the anti-tank missile unit of Hezbollah's Southern Front, in the Nabatieh region of south Lebanon," wrote the army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, on X. He also accused the victim of having "encouraged numerous terrorist plots against Israel during the war" and claimed that the latter was "responsible for transporting terrorist agents and supplying them with weapons in southern Lebanon."

Adraee claimed that in recent months, Halawi continued to work "on terrorist plots against Israel's internal front."

Yesterday evening, before this strike, Israeli drones flew extensively over the villages of Nabatieh, Iqlim al-Touffah and Sour, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent.

 The Civil Defense in Gaza announced 14 deaths in Israeli strikes early this morning.

"More than 20 airstrikes carried out by the Israeli air force in different areas of the Gaza Strip have left at least 14 martyrs, including several children and women," said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for the rescue organization.

According to him, nine people were killed at dawn in the governorate of Khan Younis, including a family of five, the two parents and their three boys.

Israel accused the Al Jazeera journalist killed yesterday of being a Hamas "sniper."  Hossam Shabat worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, the Arabic-language live broadcasting service. The Gaza Civil Defense reported that his car was targeted by a drone in Beit Lahia.

The Israeli army announced that it carried out a strike in southern Syria in response to gunfire after local Syrian authorities reported at least five deaths in bombings attributed to Israel, AFP reports.

Israeli soldiers "identified several terrorists who opened fire towards their positions from southern Syria. The soldiers returned fire and the air force struck the terrorists," the army said in a statement.

Five people were killed by Israeli tank fire during an incursion in the south, Syrian authorities said, quoted by AFP.