An Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon killed five people Sunday, including three children, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Two others were wounded, including the mother in the family.

The state-run National News Agency reported that the strike, near Bint Jbeil, had targeted a motorcycle.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel's war with Hezbollah had created the possibility for peace with Lebanon and Syria.

Syria and Israel have technically been at war since 1948, but the two states opened direct negotiations after the ouster of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad, and hope to finalize security and military agreements by the end of this year, a Syrian official said this week.

Lebanon said a strike in the country's south killed one person Saturday while Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah operative, the latest deadly attack despite a months-old ceasefire between Israel and the militant group.

The Israeli military said two projectiles were launched from northern Gaza on Sunday, one of which was intercepted while the other landed in southern Israel.

"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the areas of Lakhish and Ashdod, two projectiles were launched from the northern Gaza Strip," the military said.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Sunday announce a decision on the UK's recognition of Palestinian statehood, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said.

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa has departed for the United States, state media reported Sunday, on a landmark trip that will see the former jihadist address the United Nations General Assembly.

Major European airports including Brussels, Berlin and London's Heathrow were Saturday hit by "cyber-related disruption" affecting automated check-in and baggage drop systems and causing delays.

"We have become aware of a cyber-related disruption to our MUSE software in select airports," airport service provider Collins Aerospace said.

French President Emmanuel Macron scored a major diplomatic coup by declaring his intention to recognize a Palestinian state but the move risks being followed by bitter retaliation from Israel while not providing concrete benefits to the Palestinians, analysts and sources say.

Macron sent a shockwave through the international community with his pledge over the summer. His announcement in a speech in New York at a conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Monday is now to be matched by recognition by nine other states including Australia, Belgium, Canada and the UK, according to the Elysee.

The director of Al Shifa hospital was on duty Saturday marshalling the facility's response to Israel's assault on Gaza City when two victims killed in a strike were delivered to the ward: his brother and his sister-in-law.

"I was shocked and devastated to see the bodies of my brother and his wife," said Mohammed Abu Salmiya, who was working in the emergency department of the territory's main hospital at the time.

The United Nations Security Council voted Friday to reimpose deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program after Britain, France and Germany called for action which Tehran called "unlawful."