Lebanon Border on Fire as Israel Accelerates Central Gaza Operations

On Saturday, July 27, a rocket allegedly coming from the Iran-back Islamist terror cell Hezbollah struck a Druze village in the Golan Heights, killing 12 children. The attack has led to Netanyahu threatening war in Lebanon even as the operation in Gaza hits a major moment as Israel’s central Gaza campaign pushes on.

Israel has already responded with strikes deep inside Lebanon targeting Hezbollah strongholds. As Israel faces a rising threat to its northern border, it submitted an updated proposal for a Gaza ceasefire deal, coincidently on the same day as the attack that killed 12 children.

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Israel vowed on Sunday to “hit the enemy hard” after rocket fire from Lebanon killed 12 young people in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and fanned fears that the war in Gaza will spread.

Iran warned Israel that any new military “adventures” in Lebanon could lead to “unforeseen consequences”.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Saturday’s rocket fire and called on all parties to “exercise maximum restraint”.

Israel’s army called it “the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians” since the October 7 attack that began the current fighting in Gaza and triggered regular exchanges of fire across the Lebanese border.

Israel blamed Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement for firing a Falaq-1 Iranian rocket but the Iran-backed group — which has regularly targeted Israeli military positions — said it had “no connection” to the incident.

It said, however, that it had fired one such rocket on Saturday towards an Israeli military target in the Golan.

The rocket fire in Majdal Shams, whose population are Arabic-speaking Druze, prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return early from the United States.

Israel sends Gaza hostage and ceasefire proposal to U.S. – Axios

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Israel delivered to the U.S. on Saturday its updated proposal for the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to an Israeli senior official and two other sources with knowledge of the issue.

Why it matters: The negotiations over the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal are at a critical juncture.

• President Biden, who sees freeing the hostages and ending the war in Gaza as key to his legacy, told the families of U.S. hostages on Thursday that he will continue pushing for a deal in the time he has left in office.

Driving the news: The proposal was delivered ahead of a meeting on Sunday in Rome between Mossad director David Barnea, CIA director Bill Burns, the Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani and the head of Egyptian intelligence Abbas Kamel to discuss the hostage deal.