Lebanon crisis live updates: 4 dead in Israeli strike in southern district Tyre; Iran seeks UN Security Council meeting

Lebanon crisis live updates: Mark Kelly, chair of the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee, said Israel used a 2,000-lb (900-kg) Mark 84 series bomb, during an interview with NBC. His statement marks the first U.S. indication of what weapon had been used.

“We see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs, and we continue to provide those weapons,” Kelly said, using an abbreviation that stands for Joint Direct Attack Munitions. “That 2,000-pound bomb that was used, that’s a Mark 84 series bomb, to take out Nasrallah,” he said.

Lebanon crisis live updates: US defence secretary Lloyd Austin warned Iran and the militant groups it backs against attacking Americans in the Middle East, while the White House renewed calls on Israel to avoid triggering a wider regional war.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Israel carried out airstrikes on critical infrastructure of Houthis in Yemen.

Lebanon crisis live updates: The Lebanese health ministry said Sunday that 14 paramedics had been killed in two days of intense Israeli bombardment in Lebanon’s east and south and in Beirut where it had killed Hezbollah’s leader.

“This series of attacks killed 14 paramedics in two days,” the ministry said in a statement, adding it “condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli enemy’s repeated attacks on medical centres” and that “paramedics do not participate in hostilities”.

Lebanon crisis live updates: The Israeli military announced on Sunday that the airstrike in Beirut, which killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, also “eliminated” over 20 other members of the group.

“More than 20 terrorists, of various ranks, were present at the underground headquarters beneath civilian buildings and were managing Hezbollah’s operations against Israel,” the military’s statement said.

Among those killed were Ibrahim Hussein Jazini and Samir Tawfiq Dib, described as Nasrallah’s close associates who played key roles in Hezbollah’s daily operations.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Israel launched a fresh airstrike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Sunday, a Lebanese security official told AFP. The Israeli military confirmed the “precise strike.”

This attack follows a recent strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, escalating tensions amid ongoing Israeli operations in Lebanon’s east, south, and southern Beirut.

The Lebanese official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the airstrike targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Lebanon crisis live updates: The body of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been recovered from the site of the Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

According to the sources, Nasrallah’s body showed no direct wounds, and the cause of death appeared to be blunt trauma caused by the force of the explosion.

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Lebanon crisis live updates: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, on Sunday, warned that the death of Iranian General Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut, “will not go unanswered.”

The strike occurred on Friday at Hezbollah’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital. General Nilforoushan was a key commander in the Quds Force, the foreign operations wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Araghchi condemned the attack, stating, “This horrible crime by the Zionist regime will not go unanswered.” He also said that Iran’s diplomatic apparatus would use all available political, legal, and international means to hold the perpetrators and their supporters accountable.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Hezbollah confirms top commander Ali Karaki was killed in an Israeli airstrike

Lebanon crisis live updates: Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in a televised speech on Sunday that his country had “no option but the diplomatic option”, in response to a question about diplomatic efforts to end Israel’s escalation against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

Lebanon crisis live updates: China opposes any violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty, China’s foreign ministry said on its website on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

China urges all parties and especially Israel to immediately cool the situation and prevent the conflict from expanding or “even getting out of control”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its website.

China “opposes and condemns all action that harms innocent civilians and opposes any move that exacerbates conflict,” the foreign ministry said.

Lebanon crisis live updates: An Israeli airstrike on northeast Lebanon killed 11 people on Sunday morning, reported Associated Press.

The strike comes on the back of two days of extensive bombing in Beirut which led to the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several other key Hezbollah operatives.

The Israeli strikes on Lebanon have led to more than 200,00 displaced, 1,000 dead and 6,000 wounded as per UN agencies and the Lebanese health ministry.

Lebanon crisis live updates: China has opposed any violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty in a statement by their foreign ministry on Sunday after an Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

China has also urged all parties and especially Israel to prevent the conflict from “getting out of control.”

Lebanon crisis live updates: Sirens sounded in the city of Eilat, Israel, warning of a possible strike from Lebanon or other countries after Israel carried out extensive bombings on Friday and Saturday.

Earlier Lebanon and Yemen had attempted to launch strikes against Israel however, they caused minimal damage due to Israel’s defensive systems.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Israeli military forces stated that an unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed before entering the country’s airspace by a naval missile ship in the Red Sea.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has expresses solidarity with Lebanon in light of the death of Hassan Nasrallah and several others in Israeli strikes.

“They want to justify it, but to assassinate him, they attacked buildings, housing estates and killed hundreds of people. There’s a word for this: crime,” he said in a statement condemning Israel.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Australian foreign minister Penny Wong has called for a ceasefire and asked Israel to heed the international community.

In a speech at the UN, Wong had also called for a two-state solution to work out the violence escalating in the region.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Turkish president Erdogan posted on X saying that Lebanon was being subjected to a “genocide”, without referring directly to Nasrallah.

Lebanon crisis live updates: The death of Hassan Nasrallah dealt a big blow to the Palestinian movement in Gaza, inviting condolences from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Hamas released a statement saying, “We condemn in the strongest terms this barbaric Zionist aggression and targeting of residential buildings.”

The President of Palestine, Mahmud Abbas, offered his “deep condolences” to Lebanon for the deaths of Nasrallah and civilians, who “fell as a result of the brutal Israeli aggression.”

Lebanon crisis live updates: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of public mourning in light of the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by Israeli air strikes in Beirut on Saturday.

The death of the Hezbollah leader and his daughter Zainab has been a major blow to the organisation which is being targeted by Israel in an attempt to wipe out “terror targets”.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Four people have been killed and several injured after Israel bombed the town of Tayr Debba in the southern district of Tyre, Lebanon, according to the Lebanese state-run National News Agency (NNA).

The strikes were allegedly targeting a civil defence centre.

Lebanon crisis live updates: The Israeli armed forces have claimed that dozens of Hezbollah “terror targets” were struck in raids on Saturday, eliminating several launchers aimed towards Israeli territory.

Lebanon crisis live updates: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian offered condolences over the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and accused the United States of being involved in the killing.

“The world community will not forget that the order of the terrorist strike was issued from New York and the Americans cannot absolve themselves from complicity with the Zionists,” Pezeshkian told an Iranian news channel.

Lebanon crisis live updates: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed “grave concern” about escalation of conflict in Beirut in the past 24 hours.

A statement by his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “The Secretary-General is gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events in Beirut in the last 24 hours.”

He added, “This cycle of violence must stop now, and all sides must step back from the brink. The people of Lebanon, the people of Israel, as well as the wider region, cannot afford an all-out war.”

Lebanon crisis live updates: The health ministry in Lebanon has stated that more than a 1,000 people have been killed in the last two weeks due to attacks by Israeli forces.

They also said that around 6,000 people had been injured. Several hospitals have been advised to not admit non-urgent cases to accommodate the growing number of casualties and wounded people from strike zones.

People have also been evacuated from residential areas and made to take shelter in primary schools and open fields.