What we’re covering
• Airstrikes have landed within Beirut’s city limits for the first time since October 7. The attack comes days after Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The escalation in the war has killed civilians, destroyed homes and displaced hundreds of thousands in Lebanon.
• Hezbollah says it will continue to fight, even as a growing number of senior figures have been killed. The Iran-backed group continues to fire rockets into northern Israel, where one of Israel’s war aims is to return 60,000 residents displaced by the fighting.
• Ramping up its attacks on multiple fronts, Israel has also launched strikes targeting the Houthis in Yemen. An Israeli strike has killed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, another blow to the group as Israel presses on with the war in Gaza.
• US officials, who are still pressing for a ceasefire, see the possibility of a limited Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon but stress that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not appear to have made a decision.
