🇹🇷⚡- "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.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli arrival at Yahmur al-Shaqif, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike near al-Taibah, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against Bin Yahmar, al-Shaqif and Deir Mimas, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Note, no party has claimed responsibility for the rockets fired from southern Lebanon towards Metula, northern Israel.

It has been 6 hours.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli residents begin fleeing from Metula, northern Israel, as fears grow the situation could escalate, according to Ma'ariv.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel declares a state of alert in northern Israel, expecting a Hezbollah retaliation.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The Lebanese Foreign Minister is making phone calls with Arab and Western Foreign Ministers to contain the escalation," - al-Jazeera.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The primitive method of the launch confirms that Hezbollah had no connection to it. Hezbollah usually issues statements regarding its operations. Now Israel does not need any pretext to continue its attacks on Lebanon," - al-Mayadeen.