According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, a “Israeli enemy strike” which occurred on the night of Sunday 4 to Monday 5 August left two dead in Houla, in the south of the country. On the Israeli side, sirens sounded again early Monday in the north of the Hebrew State, due to an air attack “from Lebanon”the army said, reporting two soldiers injured. Since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 and the start of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, violence on the border with Lebanon has never stopped, but tensions have escalated further in recent days. In this context, France, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have called on their nationals to leave the country. Follow our live coverage.
Diplomacy is working to ease tensions. Emmanuel Macron and Jordanian King Abdullah II called on Sunday to avoid “at all costs” an escalation. Meeting by videoconference, the G7 foreign ministers expressed their “strong concern” in the face of the situation in the Middle East, according to a statement from Italian diplomacy.
Two people stabbed near Tel Aviv. In the suburbs of Holon, a knife attack carried out by a resident of the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli police, left two people dead: a 66-year-old woman and an octogenarian. The assailant was “neutralized”according to the same source, before succumbing to his injuries in hospital. Here’s what we know about the attack.
New deadly strikes in Gaza. The Civil Defense announced on Saturday that an Israeli strike on two schools in Gaza City sheltering displaced people had left at least 30 dead, “mainly women and children”The Israeli army confirmed that it had struck the school complex, which it said housed a Hamas command center.