Israel began attacks in the area of the town of Al Wazzani, located in southern Lebanon, on Friday morning, according to initial Friday Arab media reports.This has yet to be confirmed by Israeli security forces.

The World Health Organization stated that the IDF-initiated ceasefires in the Gaza Strip do not change the situation on the ground, Israeli state broadcaster KAN reported on Friday.

The hostile aircraft intrusion sirens that sounded on Friday morning in the area of the Ein Hashlosha kibbutz were false alarms, the IDF announced shortly after they sounded.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that people who graduate from university in the United States should "automatically" get a green card to be able to stay in the country."You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country and that includes junior colleges too," Trump said on the All-In podcast hosted by tech investors.

Iran's mission to the United Nations said on Friday that Hezbollah has the capability to defend itself and Lebanon against Israel, warning that "perhaps the time for the self-annihilation of this illegitimate regime has come.""Any imprudent decision by the occupying Israeli regime to save itself could plunge the region into a new war," Iran's UN mission posted on X amid escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.