🇺🇳🇮🇱⚡- Israel Katz, Israeli Foreign Minister has defended his decision of banning UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering Israel.

Katz called Guterres an "anti-Semite" for not "condemning Iran's ballistic missile attack" on Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The IDF confirms 5 soldiers dead, 26 others injured in two separate incidents in southern Lebanon.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡ - North Korea has placed its artillery units near the Korean DMZ at high alert.

🇺🇳🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- UNIFIL says two Israeli tanks broke down the entrance gate and entered one of their sites by force, in southern Lebanon.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- "South Korea cautioned North Korea that any harm inflicted on its citizens would lead to the end of North Korea's regime," - Yonhap, South Korean media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli air force is preparing for a large-scale attack that includes 100 targets in southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Ichilov Hospital in Tel-Aviv confirms receiving 3 Israeli soldiers in critical conditions after they were injured in battles in southern Lebanon.

🇷🇸⚡- "Serbia considers joining BRICS as an alternative to joining the EU," - Aleksandr Vulin, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Israel will not allow Hezbollah to return to the border areas in southern Lebanon even after we complete the ground operation," - Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡️- "The General Staff of the Korean People's Army has ordered all frontline troops to prepare for firing." - CCTV, citing the DPRK Ministry of Defense.

🇨🇳⚡- "The Chinese Government has ordered the removal of crosses from churches, replaced images of Jesus Christ with pictures of President Xi, required the display of CCP slogans at churches," - USCIRF (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom).

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Drone infiltration reported in Nahariyya and surrounding settlements - sirens are sounding in the area.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Acre and Nahariyya are under drone alert.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Explosions are reported in the area.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- The Pentagon has confirmed the deployment of THAAD anti-ballistic missile systems as well as personnel to Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rocket attacks against Israeli forward positions in Shlomi and east of Hadera, central Israel.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- A mass casualty event has occurred in Binyamnina after a Hezbollah drone struck a gathering of IDF personnel.

More than 25 casualties are reported, at least 15 in critical condition.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Scenes from the military base - evacuation underway via helicopters.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The number of injured has risen to 30.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- More scenes from the site.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, declares state of emergency.