Israel’s military ground operation in southern Lebanon has been expanded, the country’s defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday. Katz did not clarify when the decision to expand operations was taken and did not offer any details on what the expansion entails.

The Israeli military said it had attacked more than 100 targets in Gaza and Lebanon in the last 24 hours as it continues fighting on multiple fronts in its war against Islamist groups. The military targeted weapons depots,

In Mount Lebanon province in the middle of Lebanon, Israeli strikes killed eight people in the village of Baalchmay southeast of Beirut and 15 people in Joun village in the Chouf district, Lebanon's health ministry said.

At least 28 people were killed on Tuesday in Israeli air strikes on two houses in central Lebanon where displaced families were reportedly living, the Lebanese health ministry says.