Israel launched strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Sunday, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks that sparked the war. At least 12 people were killed, including several children, as a result of two Israeli air raids on towns south of Beirut, reported AlJazeera citing Lebanon's health ministry.

With the region on edge about a possible Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran, U.S. Central Command hit targets in Yemen, and Israel ordered evacuations in Gaza.

Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon on Saturday, hitting Beirut's southern suburbs with a dozen airstrikes and striking a Palestinian refugee camp deep in the north for the first time as it targeted both Hezbollah and Hamas fighters.

Israel was preparing a military response to Iran's missile attack this week that heightened fears of a wider regional war, an Israeli official said