Lebanon: Nearly 500 killed in Israel's biggest airstrike on Hezbollah since Gaza war; UN chief ‘alarmed’ 

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu predicted “complicated days” ahead saying, “I want to clarify Israel’s policy: we do not wait for the threat, we are ahead of it”. Israel-Lebanon clashes: Nearly 500 people were killed across southern Lebanon after Israel launched its biggest ariel offensive against Iran-backed Shite militant group Hezbollah since the beginning of war in Gaza on October 7. Lebanese health ministry said around 1,650 people were wounded and about 100 women and children were among the dead.