🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We warn against military operations on the southern border because of the risks of dragging the country towards a new war. We demand the United Nations to double international pressure on Israel to withdraw from the [5] occupied Lebanese territories," - Nawaf Salam, Lebanese Prime Minister.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah's attempt to test the borders of Israel and Israeli reactions, while we are busy returning to the fighting in Gaza, with the firing of rockets from Yemen, and perhaps the most important of all with internal divisions and protests," - Israeli Army Radio.

🇸🇩⚡- The battle for Khartoum International Airport has begun. Sudanese Armed Forces have launched an attack on the Rapid Support Forces held airport.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇨🇳⚡- "China may participate in peacekeeping missions in Ukraine, this option is being considered in Brussels.

China joining the [UK-France led] coalition could increase the likelihood that Russia would agree to the presence of peacekeepers in Ukraine," - Welt am Sonntag, German outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Note, no party has yet claimed responsibility for the recent rocket launches from Lebanon against northern Israel.

It's been almost 4 hours.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The moment the rockets were launched from southern Lebanon towards Metula, northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The IDF is still unable to identify the source of the rocket fire on Metula, northern Israel," - Haaretz.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli artillery shelling on southern Lebanon was an initial response to the rockets, and a larger retaliation will soon follow," - Haaretz.

🇹🇷⚡- "The number of people detained during demonstrations in connection with the detention of Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu has risen to 343," - Turkish Interior Ministry.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: UNIFIL in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, sound level 3 sirens, indicating 'severe potential risk'.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "What’s happening in the south today, and since February 18, is a sustained Israeli assault on Lebanon. It directly undermines the national recovery project that all Lebanese have collectively embraced," - Joseph Aoun, President of Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Lebanese President Joseph Aoun instructed the Army Commander to implement all necessary field measures to safeguard civilians and to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident to clarify its circumstances," - al-Akhbar, Lebanese outlet.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, has finished conducting an assessment of the situation in northern Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - At least 30 Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- A second squadron of Israeli jets enter Lebanese airspace at very low altitude.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- IDF announces a second wave of strikes will begin very soon, likely targeting Beirut.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from Touline, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We do not seek escalation and are working to push Israel to halt its attacks on Lebanon," - Lebanese Foreign Ministry.

Meanwhile several Lebanese civilians have already been killed - civilians the government fails to protect.