Live: Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza after Iran attack

The Israeli military reported that it targeted numerous sites in Lebanon during a recent wave of strikes.

In a statement, the military said, the air force struck approximately 120 "Hezbollah targets" in southern Lebanon and deep inside Lebanese territory.

The military claimed these targets included Hezbollah infrastructure and significant headquarters used by various units of the organization.

Today alone, Israeli attacks have resulted in at least 69 deaths in Lebanon, including 24 individuals who were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed two adjacent buildings in the southern village of Ain al-Delb.

Medical sources reported to Al Jazeera that at least 28 Palestinians have died across the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

Most recently, Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues noted that one person was killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack targeting a house west of Gaza City.

Iran has condemned the Israeli strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.

In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani criticized the attacks, stating that they specifically targeted a power plant and fuel tanks.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sent a letter to the family of assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, offering his "sincerest and most profound condolences."

Assad affirmed that the Lebanese resistance and its supporters will "persevere and persist on the righteous path regardless of the cost."

He praised Nasrallah as a leader who shaped the doctrine of struggle and left behind both an intellectual and practical legacy for resistance. Assad expressed confidence that the resistance would continue its fight against the occupation, pledging Syria’s ongoing support for the Palestinian cause. 

He stressed that Syria and the Islamic resistance remain united in their "war against the Zionist apparatus."

Andrew Miller, the Biden administration’s former expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has called on the US to withhold certain weapons from Israel if it refuses a ceasefire deal in Gaza.

In an article for Foreign Affairs, Miller suggested that President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken should threaten to withhold weapons linked to civilian casualties, such as white phosphorus shells, if Israel does not agree to a ceasefire. 

He argued that the US must balance Israeli security needs with a stance against the ongoing war's rising civilian toll, which, according to him, yields limited security benefits.

The ministry of health in Yemen reported that four people were killed and 29 wounded in the initial toll of the Israeli airstrikes on Hodeidah governorate.

The Israeli military targeted several locations in western Yemen, including the port and airport of Hodeidah, using dozens of aircraft in the assault.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, an ally of both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, warned during an interview on CNN that Iran might decide "it's better to have a nuclear weapon" after witnessing the damage to its regional allies, Hezbollah and Hamas.

Graham expressed concern that Iran could aim for nuclear arms as a security measure, given the struggles of its regional allies.

He also questioned Israel's next steps, suggesting that without a diplomatic solution, Israel might be forced to occupy parts of Lebanon to create a buffer zone, which he described as an undesirable outcome.

The Houthis' official spokesperson condemned the recent Israeli attacks on Hodeidah's facilities, saying the strikes are an attempt to undermine Yemen's support for Gaza.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out air strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. The attack involved "dozens of air force aircraft", according to the army’s statement.

The Israeli military confirmed it carried out air strikes on Yemen's port city of Hodeidah. The attack involved "dozens of air force aircraft", according to an army statement.

In a post on X, the Israeli military said that the strikes targeted power plants and a seaport, claiming these sites were being used by the Houthis to transfer Iranian weapons into the region. 

Lebanon’s health ministry reported that an Israeli air strike on the southern city of Ain el-Delb killed at least 24 people.

The preliminary count also indicated that 29 others were wounded in a nearby strike near the city of Sidon.

An atmosphere of shock and grief swept through Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut on Saturday, as those who fled Israel’s relentless bombing of the southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, learned of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s death.

As the news spread, a man screamed at the top of his lungs and stomped the ground on Martyrs' Square. Just a few metres away, a woman wailed and cried in front of the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque.

“It was too early, Abu Hadi,” she shouted, using Nasrallah’s nickname, referring to his eldest son, who was also killed by Israel in 1997.

“Can you hear me, oh sayyed [Nasrallah's title], head of the Muslim community and its honour?”

“Sayyed was not killed. Sayyed will remain with us,” she added.

Read more: Shock and grief as Beirut’s displaced receive news of Nasrallah’s death

Hezbollah said on Sunday it had targeted two locations in northern Israel, including the town of Safed, which it has fired at several times over the past week.

The group said its fighters launched a "rocket salvo" at Safed and a smaller location "in defence of Lebanon and its people and in response" to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians.

Pope Francis criticised Israeli attacks in Lebanon that go "beyond morality" on Sunday. His comments came in response to questions about Israeli air strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, along with civilians. 

On his flight back to Rome from Belgium, the pope said countries must not go "over the top" in using military force.

"Even in war, there is a morality to safeguard," he said. "War is immoral. But the rules of war give it some morality."

Fourteen medics have been killed over two days of Israeli strikes in eastern and southern Lebanon, as well as in Beirut, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

"This series of attacks killed 14 paramedics in two days," the ministry said, adding that it "condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli enemy's repeated attacks on medical centres" and that "paramedics do not participate in hostilities".

Israel will not be able to safely return people to their homes in the north by waging an all-out war with Hezbollah or Iran, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday.

In an interview with CNN, Kirby added that the US is still in discussions with Israel about the appropriate next steps in Lebanon.