Israel says it has launched a major military operation in Gaza to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages.

THIS is the moment Israel launches fresh airstrikes in a major operation dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots”. Israel’s military said it had begun “extensive strikes” in

One person was killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Thursday, in the latest violation of a ceasefire agreement, the Health Ministry said. A ministry statement said the victim lost his life when an Israeli drone struck a bulldozer on the Arnon–Yahmor road in southern Lebanon.

The withering Israeli aerial campaign appeared to presage the ground operation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch if no ceasefire and hostage deal were struck by the time Trump returned to the U.