The Israeli military has announced plans to enlist 12,000 more soldiers, with 7,000 designated for combat units, amid rising tensions with Hezbollah along the Lebanese border.

Israeli troops have planted and detonated explosives in two homes near a Lebanese army checkpoint in southern Lebanon.

Seven people are wounded after an Israeli drone attack targeted a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil.

Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says Israeli troops are occupying parts of southern Lebanon.

The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has warned that repeated Israeli assaults jeopardize fragile stability in the southern part of the Arab country.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has ordered the country’s army to “confront any Israeli incursions” into southern Lebanon as Hezbollah warns of US complicity.

At least one person has been killed and several others were injured as a result of a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting an area between Msayleh and an-Najjariyah towns in the Sidon district of South Lebanon governorate.