The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it conducted strikes against Syrian military tanks in the southern region of Syria on Monday.

In Syria, Israel launched rare attacks on forces of the new government, while in Lebanon it took aim at the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

A Palestinian mother-of-two said the sea used to be her hungry family's only escape, but she now fears for her young children's lives.

Foreign ministers from the EU's 27-member nations are meeting in Brussels in the wake of a new aid deal for Gaza, largely forged by the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.

Opposition critics have denounced the proposal, with some likening the suggested site to a "concentration camp," which could lead to ethnic cleansing in the coastal enclave devastated by 21 months of conflict.

Military says targets in northeastern Beqaa Valley include Radwan unit facilities where military activity was taking place in 'blatant violation' of November ceasefire

Ms Damari, a British-Israeli who is now 28, was one of 251 people taken captive on the deadliest single day for the Jews since the Holocaust. She was shot and abducted when Hamas gunmen stormed her home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz.

Ten people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on Sunday, including six children who were waiting to fill water containers near a refugee camp, emergency service workers said.