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Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has "escalated out of control", US envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday during a visit to Beirut. 

Hochstein said both Hezbollah and Israel failed to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended their 2006 war. 

He added that the US wants Israel's war on Lebanon to end "as soon as possible". 

"We are working with the government of Lebanon, the state of Lebanon, as well as the government of Israel, to get to a formula that brings an end to this conflict once and for all," he said. 

Hezbollah said it attacked a gathering of Israeli troops in Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon. 

Air raid sirens also sounded in Margaliot and Manara on the Israel-Lebanon border. 

Israel said it has killed 2,000 Hezbollah members since October 2023 and that the group is having trouble resupplying its forces in southern Lebanon because of Israeli strikes and a lack of leadership. 

Israel's military said at least 1,200 Hezbollah members have been killed since it launched its ground offensive in October 2024. 

Israel said it has destroyed around 70 percent of Hezbollah's missiles, which has impacted the group's ability to launch major air strikes. 

British Airways has suspended flights to Israel for the next five months, as fighting rages in Gaza and Lebanon. 

The company said flights to Israel would be suspended until the end of March 2025. 

A female Israeli captive held prisoner by Hamas has been killed in a combat zone in northern Gaza, a senior source in Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, told Al Jazeera.

The source did not specify how the captive was killed and by whom.

"The circumstances of the incident are being investigated and we do not intend to publish the name of the female prisoner killed for security reasons," the Hamas source told Al Jazeera. 

Israel has presented the US with its demands in order to stop its offensive in Lebanon, one of which is ensuring Israel's freedom to continue attacking Hezbollah, according to Axios. 

Israel wants the ability to conduct "active enforcement of" UN Security Council resolution 1701 inside Lebanon, in effect giving them the ability to target Hezbollah if it sends forces to southern Lebanon. 

An Israeli military presence in Lebanon would itself contradict the UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 Lebanon war. 

Israel also wants to enshrine its ability for its air force to have freedom of movement in Lebanon's airspace. 

At least six people were killed in an Israeli strike on Belbaak, according to Lebanon's health ministry. 

The strike killed one child and wounded at least five others. 

Seven people have been arrested in Israel on suspicion of spying for Iran.

According to Israeli police, the seven had been part of a network gathering information on the country's military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence.

Those arrested were from the city of Haifa and northern areas of the country.

An Israeli strike on the city of Baalbek on Monday killed six people including a child

The state-run National News Agency reporting the Israelis hit a building in a densely-packed residential area.

"The Israeli enemy strike... in Baalbek killed six people, including a child," the Lebanese health ministry said, adding that all six were from the same family.

Gaza's civil defence told Al Araby TV that the Israeli army forced thousands of displaced Palestinians to leave their shelters in Jabalia, northern Gaza by using force "to force them to leave with no safe place [to go to]".

The civil defence added that the Israeli army is not letting rescuers reach the areas that are being hit, and that dozens of killed and injured are currently under the rubble.

US special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday from Beirut that Lebanon and Israel just committing to UN resolution 1701 was not enough and that the United States was working to devise a formula to end the conflict once and for all.

UN resolution 1701, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.

US envoy Amos Hochstein said that linking Lebanon's fate to conflicts in the region is "not in the interest" of the country's people.

Speaking from Beirut after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Hochstein said that a resolution for the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel was still possible but that it has escalated "out of control as we feared that it could".

"The US wants to end this conflict as soon as possible, and that’s what we’re working on. We are working with the state of Lebanon and Israel to bring a formula to end this conflict once and for all. The commitment that we have is to resolve the conflict based on UN Resolution 1701," he said, referring to the Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.

At least 26 people have been killed in Gaza since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

As the situation in the northern part of the enclave escalates, here are the latest updates:

• Israeli forces are raiding shelters for displaced people, arresting men from each shelter
• Israeli artillery shelled Palestinians leaving the Jabalia refugee camp, on a street it had deemed safe for them to use
• The Kamal Adwan Hospital has run out of shrouds used to cover dead bodies
• Israeli forces have bombed the entrance to the Qleibo school, which houses displaced people in the Sheikh Zayed area in northern Gaza
• Several Palestinians were killed and injured by Israeli forces as they were trying to fill water in Jabalia al-Balad
• The Israeli army targeted a group of Palestinians in the vicinity of Jabalia's al-Yaman al-Said Hospital, killing at least four people

Israeli right-wing activists took part in a prayer near the border with Gaza, calling for the reestablishment of settlements in the Palestinian enclave.

Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were removed in 2005.

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It has been five months since the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, requested an arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel's war on Gaza and the 7 October Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

On 20 May, Khan announced that his office filed an application for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif. 

With the killing of the three Hamas leaders over the past year, only Netanyahu and Gallant are now the subject of the warrants.

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