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Netanyahu vows to 'intensify' offensive in Lebanon to 'crush' Hezbollah; at least 10 strikes reported on Mashghara | LIVE olj.me/1507955?t=32-1…

🇶🇦 #Qatar | A high-level Iranian delegation, including Tehran’s chief negotiator and the governor of the central bank, arrived in Qatar on Monday to discuss ongoing peace efforts and frozen Iranian assets, a source familiar with the talks told AFP.

✝️ #Religion | Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai on Sunday voiced support for ongoing negotiations between Lebanon and Israel and renewed his call for Lebanese "neutrality," while warning of worsening social and security conditions in Beirut amid the influx of war-displaced Lebanese. today.lorientlejour.com/article/150790…

📽️ #Cinema | In Rome, 4 women and a festival of Lebanese cinema. By Josephine Hobeika today.lorientlejour.com/article/150797…

🟥 #Diplomacy | President Joseph Aoun spoke by phone on Monday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II to thank him for humanitarian aid convoys sent to displaced people since the resumption of the war between Hezbollah and Israel on March 2. today.lorientlejour.com/article/150798…

🟥 #WarOnIran | An Iranian health ministry official said Monday the injuries suffered by supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February were only "superficial," offering a rare account of the day he was wounded. today.lorientlejour.com/article/150798…

🟥 #Diplomacy | Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri congratulated Iranian lawmaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on his re-election as speaker of the Iranian parliament, according to a statement relayed by the state-run National News Agency (NNA). today.lorientlejour.com/article/150799…

🟥 #WarinLebanon | Hezbollah has so far claimed four attacks carried out during the day against Israeli military positions and vehicles in southern Lebanon, saying it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at a military site south of Odaisseh in the Marjayoun district, in southern Lebanon, using a swarm of attack drones, as well as an Israeli artillery position in the same area.

🤳 #Image | The Israeli army carried out strikes on the Rashidieh Palestinian camp on the outskirts of Sour, in southern Lebanon, according to witnesses and our correspondent in southern Lebanon (Photo shared by our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah)

🔍 ANALYSIS | Netanyahu, the real loser in a potential US-Iran deal olj.me/1507970?t=32-1…

🟥 #WarinLebanon | Israel's two far-right ministers on Monday called for an escalation of military operations in Lebanon, with one advocating strikes on Beirut in response to Hezbollah's drone attacks. today.lorientlejour.com/article/150797…

🟥 #WarinLebanon | The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of buildings in the Burj al-Shemali Palestinian camp, near Sour, in Southern Lebanon, located close to the Mosan Center, the Sour Mall and a citrus production company.

🔍 #Analysis | Netanyahu, the real loser in a potential US-Iran deal. For Israel, the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran represents a failure to its strategy. By @noura_doukhi today.lorientlejour.com/article/150797…

🤳 #Image | Aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on several houses in the town of Doueir, in Southern Lebanon. (Photo sent to our correspondant Muntasser Abdallah)

🚨 #Breaking | The mukhtar of Doueir in the Nabatieh district (South Lebanon), Saleh Qanso, has called on Lebanon’s three top officials to urgently intervene to help rescue a woman still trapped under the rubble of her home following an Israeli strike.

🟥 #WarinLebanon | The Israeli army’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said Israel should strike “buildings in Beirut” in response to Hezbollah drone attacks targeting Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, during a security cabinet meeting on Monday.

⚡️ Israel orders evacuation of Sour; Ben Gvir calls to expand invasion of Lebanon, as Zamir considering strikes on Beirut | LIVE olj.me/1507955?t=32-1…