Beirut - Gaza: Agencies
Three members of the Lebanese Hezbollah were killed and a number of others were injured in an Israeli raid at dawn on Monday on an inhabited house in the town of Sultaniya in the central sector of southern Lebanon.
Lebanese media reported that the raid caused severe damage to property and homes adjacent to the targeted house, which is located in a residential area, as more than 10 families lost their homes due to damage to their homes, in addition to damage to the infrastructure at the site of the raid.
The media indicated that Israeli reconnaissance aircraft intensified their sorties two days ago, and did not miss the skies of the south, especially over the southern villages and towns adjacent to the Blue Line and the villages south of the Litani.
The Lebanese agency indicated that enemy forces targeted with heavy machine gun fire the main street adjacent to the border near the towns of Ramiya and Aita al-Shaab in the central sector.
The media explained that educational institutions, both official and private, closed their doors today in the area adjacent to the towns of Tibnin and Al-Sultaniya.
As for the Palestinian territories, a number of Palestinians were martyred and injured, at dawn on Monday, in a series of Israeli raids and artillery shelling targeting the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, on the 185th day of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has entered its seventh month.
On Monday, the Israeli occupation forces also arrested 27 Palestinians from several towns in Hebron in the West Bank, while the occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm and its camp amid systematic destruction of infrastructure.
For his part, European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell stressed that the two-state solution is the only way to achieve lasting peace, and that the bloc is ready to provide support. Borrell said that once the detainees are released and a ceasefire is reached, a political transition must take place in Gaza immediately.
A high-level source confirmed that there are intensive Egyptian efforts to direct viewpoints to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, noting that negotiation meetings between Hamas and Israel are continuing under Egyptian sponsorship and a Qatari-American presence, explaining that the Hamas delegation is holding meetings with Egyptian General Intelligence officials. Before the start of the quadripartite negotiations.
The source indicated that the proposed truce between the Palestinian factions and Israel includes a prisoner exchange deal and mechanisms for the return of the displaced in the Gaza Strip, and the last hours witnessed intense Egyptian contacts to resume truce negotiations in the Gaza Strip.
The sources explained to Cairo News Channel that Cairo will host meetings to discuss ways to restore calm in the Gaza Strip. They also indicated that William Burns, head of the CIA, Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, the Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and an Israeli delegation will participate in the Cairo negotiations regarding... The calm in Gaza.