Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon yesterday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch. 

The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire.

Hamas fires at Tel Aviv in first riposte to ‘massacres’ of Gaza civilians

The renewed offensive shattered a relative calm that had pervaded since truce took hold mid-January.

Israel on Tuesday launched its most intense strikes on the Gaza Strip since a January 19 ceasefire

The strikes, by far the largest since a truce took effect in January, killed more than 400 people across the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.

"Every death would have and could have been avoided had Hamas accepted the 'bridge' proposal that SE Witkoff offered last Wednesday," says a State Department spokesperson

'There are bodies and limbs on the ground, and the wounded cannot find any doctor to treat them,' a displaced victim says

'I can confirm that the return to intense fighting in Gaza has been fully coordinated with Washington. Israel has thanked President [Donald] Trump and his administration for their unyielding support for Israel,' says Israeli government spokesman David Mencer

Israel is due to send a delegation to Doha on Monday for a fresh round of talks on extending a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, after cutting off the electricity supply to ramp up pressure on Hamas

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Friday endorsed an Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump's controversial plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents, two ministers told AFP

Arab leaders are gathering in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an alternative to a widely condemned plan from US President Donald Trump to assume control of war-battered Gaza and displace its Palestinian population

Talks resume in Cairo Friday on a second phase of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire that mediators hope will bring a lasting end to the Gaza conflict, a day after Israel's military acknowledged its "complete failure" to prevent the 2023 Hamas attack that sparked the war

Rubio was in Israel on his first Middle East trip as President Donald Trump's secretary of state

Gaza fighters handed three Israeli hostages over to the Red Cross on Saturday

The truce that went into effect on January 19 largely halted more than 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip

Hamas is set to release three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for 183 prisoners held by Israel in the fifth exchange of a fragile Gaza ceasefire

Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare for "voluntary" departures from Gaza, as President Donald Trump ruled out sending US troops to the territory

Hamas issued a statement condemning the strike

The agreement, which must now go to the full cabinet for a final green light, would halt fighting and bombardment in Gaza's deadliest-ever war