The Israeli military said it struck a post belonging to Hezbollah along the border with Lebanon. 

The strike was not immediately confirmed on the Lebanese side and it was not clear if there were any casualties. 

The Israeli military has confirmed more high-ranking officers have been killed by Palestinian fighters. 

They include a lieutenant colonel who headed a communication division as well as a major who was the deputy of head of the elite Maglan unit. 

The commander of the Nahal brigade, the army's main infantry brigade, was also confirmed dead earlier on Saturday.

The military released the names of at least 26 soldiers who have been confirmed dead so far, with the numbers likely to rise. 

The Lebanese movement Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for an artillery attack earlier on Sunday that hit Israeli military targets in the occupied Shebaa farms.

The group said that its forces have struck three Israeli positions "on the road to liberate our occupied Lebanese lands and in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance". 

At least 256 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in 24 hours of Israeli shelling, including 20 children, the Palestinian ministry of health said. 

Another 1,788 have been wounded, including 121 children. 

Mortar shelling and a projectile fired from south Lebanon have hit an Israeli military post in Shebaa farms early on Sunday, Reuters new agency have reported. 

The Israeli military said it was striking with artillery in Lebanon where shots were fired from.

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting on Sunday in New York at 3pm (7pm GMT) after Hamas launched an air, land and sea military operation against Israel.

The meeting was first called by current non-permanent Security Council member Malta, while the United Arab Emirates and Brazil later added their support.

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Israel has continued overnight air strikes on Gaza City, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government responds to a surprise military campaign by Hamas.

Israel's security cabinet announced that it would be halting electricity, fuel and the transfer of goods to the besieged enclave after it concluded a meeting on Saturday evening.

And air strikes by Israel have hit several residential buildings in Gaza on Sunday morning, including multiple high-rise towers.

The military operation by Hamas that was launched against Israel in the early morning of Saturday caught Israel by surprise.

Efraim Halevy, the former head of Israel's intelligence service Mossad, said in an interview with CNN that the attack was "beyond imagination" for Israel, and that "we didn't know they had this quantity of missiles, and we certainly didn't expect that they would be as effective as they were today."

So far, the Israeli and Palestinian death tolls currently stand at nearly 300 Israelis killed and at least 232 Palestinians killed, with more than a thousand injured on both sides.

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Israeli air strikes have hit more residential buildings in Gaza on Sunday morning, according to several Palestinian news outlets.

Israeli forces bombed the Watan Tower in Gaza City, and also hit the 11-storey Al-Aklouk Tower. Palestinian news sites also reported that bombs struck the Matar residential building.

Similar Israeli air strikes on residential towers in the past have provoked a heavy response from Palestinians, who demand Israel avoid targeting civilian buildings. 

The Gaza-based Al-Qassam Brigades said it renewed rocket fire towards Israel on Sunday morning.

Israel’s southern district police forces and the country's military on Sunday said that they had secured control of the Sderot police station.

“A short time ago, full control was achieved,” a police spokesperson said.

The spokesperson said it "neutralised" 10 Palestinians after carrying out live fire “by all means” on the station.

Sderot was one of several southern Israeli towns that Palestinian fighters were able to penetrate with relative ease as Gaza launched a military campaign against Israel in the early hours of Saturday.

Republican lawmakers in US Congress, as well as leading presidential candidates, have piled on the Biden administration saying that Gaza’s military operation against Israel is tied to the Iran-US prisoner swap that granted Tehran access to $6bn in Iranian oil revenue.

Former President Donald Trump said that the hostage deal was a major reason for the attacks.

“The war happened for two reasons,” he said. “The United States is giving — and gave to Iran — $6 billion over hostages.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is also running in the Republican primary, said the Biden administration’s foreign policy decisions were to blame for the Palestinian attack on Israel.

In August, the Biden administration agreed, in exchange for the release of five Americans held in Iran, to waive sanctions on the transfer of $6bn in frozen Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar.

In response to the statements from Republicans, a senior Biden administration official said: “I cannot think of a more irresponsible claim to make in such a situation about the hostage deal, and it’s also completely false.”

US: Republicans blame attacks on Israel on Biden prisoner swap with Iran

Efraim Halevy, the former head of Israel's intelligence service Mossad, said in an interview with CNN that the Palestinian attack on Israel "was a total surprise" and that "we had no warning of any kind".

"We didn't have an inkling of what was going on," he told the news channel.

In response to Hamas launching thousands of rockets at Israel on Saturday, Halevy said that the attack was "beyond imagination" for Israel, and that "we didn't know they had this quantity of missiles, and we certainly didn't expect that they would be as effective as they were today".

The former Israeli intelligence chief also told CNN that the Palestinian attack was unique and that it was "the first time" Gaza has been able to "penetrate deep into Israel and to take control of villages".

An Israeli member of the Knesset is calling for another Nakba against the Palestinian people after Hamas launched an attack on Israel.

"Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!" Ariel Kallner, a member of the Likud party in Israel, said on X.

The Nakba, or catastrophe, refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.

That military campaign by Zionist forces killed thousands of Palestinians, destroyed hundreds of villages and forcibly expelled 80 percent of the Palestinian population from their homeland, forcing them to become refugees.

Israel's security cabinet said it decided to cut off the supply of electricity, fuel, and the transfer of goods to Gaza, according to several Israeli news outlets.

The decision was aimed at "destroying the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas".

"We have started the offensive formation and will continue without reservation and without respite until the goals are achieved," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the security cabinet's meeting concluded.

The staff for the Israeli embassy in Jordan were reportedly evacuated following Gaza's Operation Al-Aqsa Storm over concerns about protests taking place in front of the embassy, the Israeli news site Ynet has reported.

The embassy personnel were relocated to Israel, according to the news site.

Jordanians have organised marches and protests in Amman and across the country in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Jordanian security forces mobilised to prevent its citizens from approaching the border with the occupied West Bank, in response to calls from activists to gather in the Jordan Valley in solidarity with Gaza. 

A series of Israeli air strikes have hit the centre of Gaza City, which has a population of about half-a-million people. 

The strikes come after an Israeli army spokesperson urged Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate their homes, an order that critics slammed, as no evacuation protocol or shelters exist in the besieged enclave.