Israel's military said Friday it struck "multiple" Hezbollah targets in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, two months into a fragile ceasefire with the Lebanese group. The strikes come a day after eight more hostages were freed from the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led militants in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly delayed Israel's release of 110 Palestinian prisoners.

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese officials said, in the deadliest day since Israel’s truce with Hezbollah took effect. In Gaza,

Israel has not toppled Hamas’s rule over Gaza – at least not yet – but for Hamas to portray this as a victory is an act of staggering self-deception. The same in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s leadership has been decapitated,