The Latest Breaking News from Lebanon

The militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon's capital.

France and Jordan this week jointly airdropped seven tonnes of aid to civilians and aid workers in Gaza, as Israel continued to conduct air strikes against the militant group Hamas in the area. The United Nations says that the Palestinian territory has now been rendered "uninhabitable".

Chances of a regional flare-up rest on the unclear intentions of Tehran and the groups it has nurtured

Hezbollah says it launched a new wave of rockets at Israel in response to an Israeli assassination of one of its leaders last month. It is just the latest spat between Israel and one of several Iran-backed militias in the Middle East

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel on Friday that the group will "inevitably" respond to the assassination of Hamas's deputy political leader in Beirut this week, saying it "cannot remain silent" to such an incursion on Lebanese territory.

Hassan Nasrallah says assassination in Beirut has changed nature of his group’s conflict with Israel, raising fears of escalation

The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah says his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official

Nasrallah again pledges retaliation for killing of Hamas deputy chief al-Arouri, says Hezbollah ‘cannot be silent’.

The proposal by the defence minister – not yet signed off by the government – comes as pressure grows from Western nations over the future of Gaza, and as the US secretary of state visits the region for the fourth time in three months