Rocket sirens sounded off across Tel Aviv and much of central after the Hezbollah attack, Al Jazeera reported.
At least 50 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
Four people were killed and more than 30 wounded following the latest Israeli air strike in central Beirut near Lebanon’s government headquarters.
A woman died from her wounds after a Hezbollah rocket struck a building in Shfaram in northern Israel. Several others were wounded.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry says at least 20 people were killed in an operation targeting “gangs” that looted UN trucks bringing food into the war-torn territory which is threatened by famine.
An Israeli air strike on a house near Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza killed at least 17 people.
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the complete occupation of the northern Gaza Strip to force Hamas to release Israeli captives.
“To bring the hostages home, we must occupy northern Gaza entirely and tell Hamas that if they don’t return them, we will stay there forever, costing Gaza a third of its territory,” Smotrich told a meeting of his Religious Zionism Party.
“Reaching an agreement with Hamas to end the war would mean surrender and defeat,” he added. “We will continue until Hamas is eliminated and an agreement is reached under which it surrenders. We won’t stop until our enemies are destroyed and security is fully restored to the state of Israel.”
A funeral has been held in southern Lebanon for Mohammad Afif, Hezbollah’s head of media relations, a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in central Beirut.
Afif’s coffin, draped in Hezbollah’s yellow flag, was carried through the streets of Sidon on the shoulders of mourners.
“Resistance is the response and the convoys of martyrs create victory,” Afif’s brother, Sadiq al-Naboulsi, said at the funeral.
“Hajj Mohammad Afif was a big figure in the media and therefore the Israelis and Americans were hurt by his voice. For that reason, they assassinated him. The killing of Hajj Mohammad Afif and all the martyrs and leaders will not turn [us] back at all,” he said.
