🔴 Live: Netanyahu says Israel will ‘mercilessly strike’ Hezbollah, including in Beirut

Summary:

• An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 18 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.

• The 27 EU member states have “agreed on asking (the) Israelis to stop attacking UNIFIL”, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, top diplomat Josep Borrell said ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

• Hezbollah threatened Israel with more attacks if its offensive in Lebanon continues, after a drone attack on a military base near Israel’s Haifa on Sunday killed at least four soldiers and wounded more than 60.

• An Israeli air strike on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza killed at least four people and left dozens with severe burns, Palestinian medics said. 

• More than 42,289 Palestinians have been killed and 98,684 wounded in Israel‘s military offensive in Gaza since October 7, 2023 according to the Gaza health ministry. 

• At least 15 people were killed late Sunday in Israeli shelling at a school serving as a shelter for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, the territory’s civil defence agency said.

• The US is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence battery to Israel along with US troops to operate it, the Pentagon said hours after Iran warned the US to keep its military forces out of Israel.

• The UNIFIL peacekeeping force in Lebanon said that there had been further Israeli violations against its positions after Israeli tanks entered a UNIFIL post in the Lebanese town of Ramiya near the border with Israel.

• Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu urged UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “immediately” get UN peacekeepers “out of harm’s way” in combat areas in southern Lebanon.

• The Lebanese Red Cross said a team of its paramedics was hit by a strike while on a rescue mission in the southern part of Lebanon, leaving personnel lightly wounded and two ambulances damaged.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)