- Israel has expanded its attacks on Iran-backed militant groups across the region after the killing of powerful Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
- Israel has also launched small special forces operations into southern Lebanon ahead of a potential ground offensive, an Israeli official tells NBC News. It came as Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, said the “next phase in the war against Hezbollah will begin soon.”
- Elsewhere, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in comments directed at Iran that there was nowhere in the Middle East beyond Israel’s reach, two days after Israel killed the leader of Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
- The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA chief denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon. The head of Hamas’ Lebanon branch was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the group said earlier.
- President Joe Biden called for a cease-fire “right now” when asked whether he was comfortable with Israeli plans to invade Lebanon. “I’m more aware than you might know and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” he told reporters at the White House