UNIFIL

"We all know the ending of this conflict. Hezbollah will be pushed back north of the Litani River,” Danon said.

“I want the Lebanese to think, believe, and understand that if there's no solution to the problem in southern Lebanon, we will conquer all of Lebanon," Professor Amatzia Baram said.

Katz told the UNSC that Israel had engaged “constructively” to secure a diplomatic resolution to the conflict but that Hezbollah had rejected those efforts.

"Lebanon is adhering to its position of rejecting war and not intending to enter it," the officials added, noting their concern in the recent escalation. 

‘One launcher was located roughly 620 meters from a UNIFIL base,’ says geo-analyst Ben Tzion Macales

Throughout the day, sirens sounded in the South, including in Nir Oz.

Despite being founded to maintain peace and security on the border between Israel and Lebanon, UNIFIL has failed to rein in violence from Hezbollah

The strike killed seven staff of the aid group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including citizens of Australia, Britain, and Poland, and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada.

Two security sources had earlier told Reuters the observers were wounded in an Israeli strike outside the border town of Rmeish. The Israeli military denied involvement in the incident.

The IDF denied hitting a vehicle carrying United Nations observers outside the southern Lebanese border town of Rmeish.