Lebanon: Paris warned Beirut that Israel could “start a war” in the south of the country. Since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, which sparked the war in Gaza, Lebanese Hezbollah has been bombarding Israeli army positions on the border daily.

In nearly four months, 226 people, the majority Hezbollah fighters, have been killed in southern Lebanon according to an AFP count. On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz told his French counterpart that “time is running out to find a diplomatic solution”