Gaza live: Several dead including Hezbollah commander after Israeli strike on southern Beirut

Hezbollah claimed an attack on a group of Israeli soldiers near the eastern side of the Lebanon-Israel border on Tuesday. 

Hezbollah said it used the “appropriate weapons” and that the attack resulted in “confirmed” hits.

Hezbollah on Monday said it launched 13 attacks with rockets and drones on Israel. The attacks come as US officials warn Israel against a wider offensive. 

Democratic Senator John Fetterman has slammed UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for saying that  Israel is conducting mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

“These so-called ‘experts’ have consistently revealed their anti-Israel bias and a censure from one of them is a badge of honor,” Fetterman said on social media.

“No apologies and zero conditions for any essential support for Israel.”

Albanese said earlier in the day that Palestinians have a right to resist Israel’s occupation.

Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said the US’s ceasefire proposals always lead to a “dead-end”.

Hamad told Al-Jazeera Arabic that the US’s proposals were skewed by their “bias” towards Israel. He said the US was “on the wrong side of history”.

He also claimed Hamas was showing “flexibility”  in its talks.

Three Palestinians were killed in an attack on a home in southwest Gaza City, including a woman and a child, the Palestinian civil defence said. 

The strike brings the death toll documented by the civil defence in the last 24 hours to at least 38.

A senior State Department official has denied the Houthis’ claim that the US offered to recognise the Houthi government in Sanaa if it stops attacking vessels in the Red Sea.

“Houthi propaganda is rarely true or newsworthy. Coverage like this puts a guise of credibility on their propaganda,” the senior official said, in an apparent jab at Al Jazeera Arabic that hosted the interview with the Houthi official.

The senior State Department official spoke to MEE on condition of anonymity.

France’s ambassador to Israel, Frederic Journes, on Monday warned that a full-scale war in Lebanon would create a "regional conflict" like the war in Ukraine.

“If a full-scale war starts in Lebanon, it could turn this whole thing into a regional conflict, and then you have a regional conflict in Ukraine and a second regional conflict in the Middle East,” Journes said at a national security conference in Israel hosted by Haaretz.

“Iran doesn’t want it, Hezbollah doesn’t want it and Israel doesn’t want it, and yet it is very possible that it happens,” he said.

Israeli security forces are not "exonerated" by Israel’s initial findings on the killing of US citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday.

He said Washington could consider other measures, if it is not satisfied with Israel’s full probe when it is released. 

Israel claimed its forces unintentionally killed Eygi with a sniper shot to the head during a protest in the occupied West Bank.

The death toll from an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has been revised upward from three killed to 10, according to the Palestinian civil defence.

Mahmoud Bassal, the organisation’s spokesman, said six Palestinians, including children, were also killed in the bombing of a tent housing displaced people near Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, another Israeli attack killed six people as well, including two children, Bassal said.

Yemen’s Houthis received “temptations” from the US that include acknowledgement of their government in Sanaa in exchange for ending their maritime attacks, an official with the group claimed.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a Houthi political official, told Al Jazeera TV on Monday that the US offered to recognise the Houthi movement as a government if they stopped attacking commercial shipping.

The remarks come a day after a Houthi ballistic missile reached central Israel for the first time.

Israel is preventing critical materials necessary to purify drinking water from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation at the UN, said.

Arrojo-Agudo said that every person in Gaza is receiving only 4.7 litres of water daily.

He added that Israeli authorities are preventing 70 percent of the necessary materials to purify water from entering Gaza and warned about water pollution, calling it a “silent bomb with a much bigger effect than the one that destroys buildings”.

The US says it is still working with mediators Egypt and Qatar to draft a revised ceasefire proposal for Gaza.

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday that the US has no timeline for a draft deal. The US has been working on a new proposal for weeks. 

Miller said Washington wanted to make sure the proposal it puts forward is one Israel and Hamas can accept.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin warned his Israeli counterpart of “devastating consequences” should Israel and Hezbollah go into a full-scale war.

Austin’s warning to Defence Minister Yoav Gallant comes after the Israeli official said an offensive in Lebanon appeared closer. 

Austin said,  “Israel should give [hostage] negotiations time to succeed,” according to a Pentagon readout of their call. 

He noted “the devastating consequences that escalation would have on the people of Israel, Lebanon, and the broader region". 

Hamas's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar has thanked Yemen's Houthis for launching a ballistic missile at Israel on Sunday. 

“I congratulate you on your success in sending your missiles deep into the enemy entity, bypassing all layers and defence and interception systems," Sinwar said in the message addressed to Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

Sinwar also said Hamas was ready for a long fight in Gaza. 

“We have prepared ourselves to fight a long war of attrition that will break the enemy’s political will."

The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday that 20 people were killed and 76 wounded over the past 24 hours by Israeli strikes. 

The rising death toll comes as Israel pounds sites across the Gaza Strip. 

Earlier today, the Palestinian Civil Defence, said Israeli strikes  targeted a family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 3 Palestinians. 

At least 41,226 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's offensive. 

Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar is using a complex system of couriers, codes and handwritten notes to direct Hamas’s operations inside Gaza and communicate with mediators, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The report also said that a “typical message from Sinwar” is handwritten and first passed to a trusted Hamas member who moves it along a chain of couriers, some of whom might be civilians.

The system is similar to what Sinwar and other Hamas officials used while in Israeli prisons.

The report also noted that Arab mediators have travelled to Gaza to receive messages from Hamas. Both Egypt and Qatar are mediating between the group and Israel.