In southern Lebanon, armed fighters with the Hezbollah movement fired a barrage of rockets at Israeli military positions Monday, after Israeli shelling killed at least three Hezbollah fighters. An Israeli deputy commander was killed during the cross-border fighting, which followed a similar exchange of fire one day earlier that had no casualties. The fighting has prompted fears of a wider war across the Middle East. On Sunday, a senior Hezbollah official pledged solidarity with the Palestinians who carried out attacks on Israel.

Hashem Safieddine: “The nation is with you. Our hearts, minds, souls, our history and guns and rockets and all that we have is with you.”

A senior Hamas official on Monday denied reports that Iran and Hezbollah helped plan the incursion into Israel from Gaza, but said Hamas’s allies stood ready to join the battle.