“Everything must be done to prevent Lebanon from descending into chaos,” Macron wrote on X/Twitter.

Troops are targeting "Hezbollah strongholds" in south Lebanon, where strikes reportedly killed seven people on Monday.

Israel pushed into new parts of southern Lebanon on Monday, deploying troops to target Hezbollah positions as it intensified its campaign against the Iran-backed militant group. In a briefing, Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that soldiers were in "new locations that our troops were not operating yesterday".

France is ready to facilitate ceasefire discussions between Israel and Lebanon in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron says in a post on X. He says that the Lebanese leadership

“They're sleeping on the street without anything,” Aline Kamakian from World Central Kitchen told Newsweek.

Fox News chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt reports on a French proposal to end the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon as Israeli officials reportedly consider a ground invasion on ‘Fox Report.’

The report says that Lebanon will be required to declare its willingness to hold talks with Israel on a permanent non-aggression pact, with an agreement ending the formal state of war between the countries since the Jewish state’s founding in 1948 to be signed in two months.

The leaflets appeal directly to Lebanese citizens and encourage them to reach out to Unit 504, an intelligence arm of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), if they "want to be part of