Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the United Nations General Assembly should recommend the use of force, in line with a resolution it passed in 1950, if the U.N. Security Council fails to stop Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon."The U.N. General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can't show the necessary will," Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.He also urged Muslim countries to take economic, diplomatic, and political steps against Israel to pressure it into accepting a ceasefire, and added Israel's attacks would target them too if it is not stopped soon.

A spokesperson for the Iran-backed Yemen-based Houthi terror group claimed that the group shot down an American MQ-9 drone on Monday, over X/Twitter. The Houthi official claimed that the drone had flown over the Saada airspace as part of a joint American-Israeli campaign, which the terror group said resulted in the deaths of five civilians. #معركة_الفتح_الموعود_والجهاد_المقدس pic.twitter.com/oxFHDq0aw2— العميد يحيى سريع (@army21ye) September 30, 2024The MQ-9 drone is reportedly a multi-million dollar surveillance aircraft, with Forbes reporting its value at around $30 million. According to the US Air Force, the drone can fly as high as 50,000 feet and has a range of 1,150 miles.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that it was vital to avoid any further military interventions in Lebanon."Any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the situation and it has to be avoided," Borrell told reporters, speaking from Mexico, after an emergency video conference of EU foreign ministers.Israel warned Iran on Monday that nowhere in the Middle East was beyond its reach and hinted at a land invasion of Lebanon after assassinating the leader of the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group, one of its biggest adversaries, in a Beirut suburb last week.

Hezbollah has not asked for any help from Iran as "they are on our side", the Lebanese group's lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah told local broadcaster Al Jadeed on Monday.

The IDF maneuvered into several villages in the eastern sector of Lebanon on Tuesday, where, according to intelligence, Hezbollah has terrorist infrastructure.IDF artillery also fired at the area, aiming to destroy terrorist infrastructure, kill Hezbollah terrorists, and disrupt terrorist activity.The ground maneuver was supported by extensive air force operations aimed at gathering intelligence on the situation on the ground and targeting terrorists operating inside buildings.

Israel Air Force jets conducted a precise strike on Hezbollah military infrastructure and weapons manufacturing facilities in the Beirut suburbs of Dahieh on Monday night, the military said on Tuesday. The IDF added that before the strike, it had taken steps to avoid harming civilians, including issuing warnings to the civilian population, using precise ammunition, and aerial surveillance. The military noted that Hezbollah had knowingly positioned such facilities in the heart of the civilian population in Beirut."The IDF is continuing to strike Hezbollah's terror infrastructure and degrade its military capabilities in Lebanon in order to restore security to the citizens of the State of Israel," the IDF stated.

Three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a suburban supermarket in Shanghai on Monday on the eve of China's week-long National Day holiday, the latest in a series of stabbing incidents in major Chinese cities this year.The assailant, a 37-year-old man surnamed Lin, has been detained, local police of Songjiang district said in a statement on Tuesday.According to an initial investigation by police, Lin had travelled to Shanghai to vent his anger following a personal financial dispute.The knife attack came one day before China's National Day "Golden Week", when holiday travel was expected to surge.Public stabbing incidents have risen over the years in China, with authorities often putting the blame on mental illness. Children at schools are a common target.