Lebanon’s Hezbollah, allied with Hamas, began firing rockets into Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, drawing retaliatory airstrikes. The conflict dramatically escalated in September with Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and most of his senior commanders. Israel launched a ground operation earlier this month.

Edited by Owen Amos and James Harness with Riam El Dalati and Joel Gunter in Lebanon, and Yolande Knell in Jerusalem We now have more on the police officer who was killed in a shooting in Israel earlier today.

The mayor of the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh was killed along with five others in an Israeli airstrike, two security sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Lebanon's health ministry had earlier reported that five people were killed in the strike on a municipal building.