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Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Israel as pressure mounts on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his government’s lack of preparedness for the October 7 attacks by Palestinian group Hamas and its handling of the ensuing captive crisis.

The United States has seen no signs that Hezbollah is preparing for a major military operation against Israel, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

The US has intelligence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to provide the Lebanese group Hezbollah with a Russian-made missile defense system, according to two people familiar with the intelligence.

Egypt’s foreign minister says a leaked Israeli intelligence ministry document that proposed the relocation of millions of Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt was a “ludicrous proposition".

The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it has killed or injured 120 Israeli soldiers during the current round of fighting near Lebanon's border.

An escalation of the war in Gaza could plunge the whole region into chaos, Lebanon's caretaker prime minister has stated. Najib Mikati added that he is working to ensure his country does not enter the Israel-Gaza war, amid escalating cross-border exchanges between Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Israel.

Some of Israel’s most senior economists have warned that Tel Aviv faces an impending economic crisis following its war on the Gaza Strip.

Israel has carried out strikes against military infrastructures in Syria and Lebanon, its military has announced, amid concerns Tel Aviv's offensive against Hamas could devolve into broader conflict across the Middle East.

All Israeli diplomatic staff have been called back from Turkey following Turkish criticism of Israel's current military operations in Gaza. The order comes as pro-Palestine protests continue in Turkey with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stating Ankara is making preparations to proclaim Israel a “war criminal”.

Israeli air strikes on military positions in southwest Syria on Wednesday killed eight soldiers and wounded seven more, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported.

An Israeli tank “accidentally fired and hit an Egyptian post”, wounding several Egyptian border guards, the so-called Israel Defense Forces announced.

Syrian officials say Israel has carried out fresh airstrikes on the Arab country’s two main airports in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo, knocking both facilities out of commission in the third such attacks within the span of 10 days.

Lebanon’s resistance group Hezbollah has confirmed six more of its fighters have now been killed along the border with Israel, taking to 19 the number of its members who have died since October 7.

US President Joe Biden and his aides advised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to launch pre-emptive strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, a move that could risk widening the current unrest to another front, the New York Times daily has reported.

Hezbollah has confirmed that three of its members were killed in southern Lebanon while “they were engaged in fighting”. Israel’s military had previously announced they struck a squad of Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon with a drone.

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant  has said that Tel Aviv was not interested in waging war on its northern front and that Israel will keep the situation along the border as it is.

Hezbollah launched missiles at the occupied-territories on Sunday in response to the recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and two elderly civilians, the Lebanese movement announced in a statement.

Israel has carried out the second airstrike in a matter of one week against Syria's Aleppo International Airport in the country's northwest, knocking the facility out of service.

The Israeli military has told over 1 million Gaza residents to leave their homes in Gaza City and urgently relocate to the south, in a move the UN has warned would cause “devastating humanitarian consequences".

Cross-border violence between Lebanon and Israel has escalated, pushing many Lebanese in the southern towns to leave as Hezbollah and the Israeli military continue to trade fire.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz agreed to form an emergency unity government. The two leaders have agreed to form a so-called war cabinet comprising Netanyahu, Gantz and the Minister of Military Affairs Yoav Gallant.

The Lebanese Hezbollah movement announced it has struck two Israeli military posts in the northern part of the occupied territories in response to Tel Aviv's aggression in South Lebanon, which left three of its fighters dead.

Beirut does not wish to be drawn into the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati stated Monday, according to the state news agency, NNA.

At least two Israelis have been killed when a gunman opened fire on a bus full of tourists in Egypt. The two Israelis were reportedly killed by an Egyptian policeman.

Israelis were spotted spitting in the direction of Christians in occupied East Jerusalem again on Wednesday. It came days after similar moves, defended by the national security minister as "not criminal", led to widespread condemnation.