Lebanese official media reported an Israeli strike on a house in the main eastern city of Baalbek on Sunday, which was not preceded by an Israeli army evacuation warning.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 23 people, including seven children, in the Jbeil district village of Almat north of the capital Beirut.

Iran signalled an openness towards Donald Trump Saturday, calling on the U.S. president-elect to adopt new policies towards it after Washington accused Tehran of involvement in a plot to kill him.

A wave of Israeli strikes on east and south Lebanon on Saturday killed at least 33 people, the health ministry said, as Israel intensified its air campaign against Hezbollah.

The Israeli military has accused a group of soldiers of burning a Lebanese flag in southern Lebanon where they are fighting Hezbollah.

Syrian state media reported an Israeli strike Saturday on the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib that injured soldiers and caused damage.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed hopes during a phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that he would keep his "promises to work towards ending wars" in the Middle East.

Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday described as "totally unfounded" U.S. accusations of a plot by Tehran to assassinate president-elect Donald Trump.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has discussed Lebanon and Gaza in his first call with his new Israeli counterpart Israel Katz, the Pentagon said.

Rescuers did not expect to find two-year-old Ali Khalifeh alive after an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed his entire family and left him trapped under the rubble for 14 hours.