France to provide more than $108m in humanitarian aid to Lebanon –

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least one person was killed and five wounded as Israel carried out at least 17 attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, levelling six buildings in raids that began without warning.

A Lebanese officer was among three soldiers killed in an Israeli raid in southern Bint Jbeil, Lebanon’s military said. Al Mayadeen

Mikati says Lebanon needs help to expand army and rebuild

International support will be needed to shore up and expand Lebanon’s army and rebuild the country’s destroyed infrastructure, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has told the aid conference on Lebanon in Paris.
Mikati said the Lebanese government had decided to recruit more troops and could deploy 8,000 soldiers as part of a plan to implement a ceasefire and the UN Security Council resolution which calls for the army to be deployed in southern Lebanon.

Macron reiterated his call for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
He said he regretted that Iran had backed Hezbollah against Israel but also criticised Israel’s operations in the south of Lebanon.
“The destruction is there. The victims are there. More violence is there. And we cannot accept this,” he said.