Libanon

The Israeli army has announced that it has “approved and validated” plans for an offensive in Lebanon, amid escalating clashes with Hezbollah and a relative lull in Gaza.

The United States has called for a de-escalation of cross-border exchanges between Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah as threats of a full-blown war loom. … Iran-backed Hezbollah, which allied with Palestinian militant group Hamas, has said that it will only stop attacks if there is a cease-fire in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.

The Lebanese militant group launches kamikaze drones into northern Israel, hours after Israeli PM’s warning that long-running exchanges of fire with Hezbollah could soon escalate.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched a missile strike Wednesday on a military base in northern Israel that left 14 soldiers wounded, six of them seriously, according to media reports. 

in the Rmeish area that injured four unarmed peacekeepers on a foot patrol along the Blue Line that divides Israel from Lebanon and the disputed Golan Heights.

An overnight strike on the southern Lebanese village of Hebbariye killed at least seven people. On Wednesday, Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets at the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona, killing at least one individual.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone over Baalbek, a Hezbollah stronghold where it has an air defense unit. It then fired a missile that was intercepted by Israel, landing near a synagogue close to Nazareth in northern Israel without causing injury or damage.

At least seven civilians have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, security sources say, after Hezbollah rocket fire killed a soldier in Israel. … Hezbollah fighters have exchanged fire with Israeli forces almost every day along the border since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in October.

Continuing retaliatory attacks and targeted assassinations along the Lebanon-Israel border are prompting warnings of an escalation that could unleash a wider conflict in the region.

"It is imperative to avoid regional escalation in the Middle East. It is absolutely necessary to avoid Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict," Josep Borrell said during a press conference in Beirut with Lebanon's foreign minister.