Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement on Friday that the near daily attacks were a “clear violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

The statement also called out France and the United States – who are guarantors of the truce – for “continued inaction and appeasement” towards Israel over what the “repeated violation” of the deal.

In the latest attacks, Lebanon said on Thursday that Israel had killed one person and wounded seven in attacks on the southern Lebanese village of Ansar.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the attacks the previous day had struck civilian facilities and denounced what he described as a breach of the ceasefire.

The Israeli military said it had targeted Hezbollah and allied groups.

The incident marked the latest strikes in an almost unbroken pattern of daily Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory since the ceasefire deal was struck in November 2024, after more than a year of fierce hostilities that culminated in two months of open war.

Lebanese authorities last week foiled an Israeli plot to carry out bombings and assassinations at a commemoration for former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israel.

In August, the Lebanese government made a decision to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year, but Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem has firmly rejected the mounting pressure.

However, the Iran-aligned group has been severely weakened by its most recent hostilities with Israel and the overthrow of key ally Bashar al-Assad, who it helped prop up in neighbouring Syria during its civil war.

Lebanese officials are now saying that resources are too limited to meet the deadline, but that they are aiming to fully clear a stretch along the Lebanon-Israel border, defined as south of the Litani River, by the end of November before moving into further phases.

Iran was also hit by Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities during a 12-day war with Israel this year.

The continuing attacks in Lebanon come as Israel continues to restrict the flow of aid for Palestinians despite a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israeli’s overnight violations of the third post–October 7 ceasefire bring an undeniable sense of déjà vu. In addition to breaking the first two, it’s broken its ceasefire with Lebanon hundreds, if not thousands, of times. But they also reflect the reality beneath the pageantry of Monday’s Sharm El-Sheikh conference. Two years of nonstrop atrocities in Gaza are not yielding Palestinians the “historic dawn of a new Middle East” that Trump promised but the recrudescence of the same one that US hegemony has always offered: a permanent oppression they are expected to quietly accept.

Much of the regional diplomacy after the Israeli strike on Qatar last month had been devoted to securing a ceasefire and hostage exchange. Now that those provisional goals have been achieved, no one can answer the harder question of what comes next. The Sharm El-Sheikh summit sidestepped the Trump plan for a “Board of Peace,” chaired by the US president and run by Tony Blair, in an echo of the British Mandate a century ago. But the communiqué out of the summit, signed by most of the diplomatic intermediaries of the past two years of Israeli-Palestinian negotiation, is deafeningly silent about the central issue of Palestinian freedom.

Released by the White House on Monday under the typically self-aggrandizing title “Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity,” the communiqué locates the key to “lasting peace” in combating “extremism” and “promoting education, opportunity, and mutual respect.” It defines lasting peace as “one in which both Palestinians and Israelis can prosper with their fundamental human rights protected, their security guaranteed, and their dignity upheld.” It solemnly intones that a “comprehensive vision of peace, security and shared prosperity in the region” will be grounded in “the principles of mutual respect and shared destiny.”

Nowhere does the document so much as hint at Palestinian statehood. Nowhere does it even suggest accountability for the innumerable war crimes committed by the Israeli government, still led by a man facing an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. And it never comes anywhere close to establishing a diplomatic mechanism to address the Palestinians’ legitimate demands for freedom from Israel. Somehow, Palestinians are expected to consider their “dignity upheld” through continued subjugation by an Israeli military that remains inside Gaza. The communiqué was little more than a rehash of the endless post–Second Intifada assurances from the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama that Palestinian material prosperity can functionally substitute for independence.

The other signatories at Sharm El Sheikh toed the same evasive line. The regional leaders endorsing the communiqué were Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the dictator of Egypt; Tamim bin Hammad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar; and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the autocrat of Türkiye. Sisi at least acknowledged the need for a Palestinian state, but only outside the confines of the communiqué. He gave Trump an award instead.

Sisi’s actions encapsulated the cowardice at Sharm El-Sheikh. The conference did not build a pathway to peace; it showcased a desire for quiet. And while the ostentatious treatment of Trump as a man of history is a spectacle not typically necessary for American presidents, it reflects the decades-old bargain between the United States and recipients of its largesse like Egypt. Under this compact, tyrants disconnected from their people receive advanced military technology in exchange for satisfying US political and economic prerogatives. Even as Israel engaged in its US-backed genocide, military ties between it and ostensible critics like Egypt and Qatar actually expanded, as The Washington Post recently revealed.

The Gaza genocide exposed this arrangement—usually understood as American hegemony and more recently “the rules-based international order”—as bankrupt and predatory in a manner exceeding even the US occupation of Iraq. The genocide also opened the US-backed order to unprecedented challenges, such as the ICC’s indicting a US client instead of a US adversary and the recognition, however superficial, of a Palestinian state by European powers firmly in the US ambit. That was what Trump referred to in his speech before the Israeli Knesset warning Netanyahu that Israel cannot fight the entire world.

Yet Trump is not about to let the overdue recognition of the truth stand in the way of a convenient and lucrative delusion. That delusion is known as the Abraham Accords, a massive US arms deal that Trump’s first administration brokered in 2020, cementing normalization between Israel and the Arab powers over the heads of Palestinians. When the Sharm El Shaikh statement heralded “strengthening bonds among nations” and the “friendly and mutually beneficial relationship between Israel and its regional neighbors,” it was signaling a desire to return to the momentum of those accords.

But if the Hamas attacks on October 7 proved anything, it was that substituting regional normalization with Israel for Palestinian freedom is a path into a nightmare, not out of one. A people who has survived 75 years of expulsion, massacre, apartheid and now genocide will not accept consignment to the margins of a regional order. The US coalition claims the loyalty of many of the governments of the region, but the past two years proved once again that the Palestinian cause commands the loyalty of the region’s people.

In pursuing the Abraham Accords, both Trump and Joe Biden confused the quiet of the Palestinians with their quiescence. When Israel’s supporters claimed there was peace on October 6, they succumbed to the same delusion. It led only to October 7 and genocide. The horrors of the past two years should have taught Israel and its declining-superpower patron that the only path to peace runs through a free Palestine. Instead, it chose the image of an illusory stability over the lives of at least 67,869 Palestinians, and likely tens if not hundreds of thousands more buried in the ruins of Gaza. Unless they learn the real lessons of the genocide and what preceded it, another October 7 is an inevitability.

Donald Trump told Israel to allow “every ounce of food” into Gaza as he acknowledged for the first time that there is “real starvation” in the region.

During a visit to Britain, the US president contradicted Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli prime minister claimed it was a “bold-faced lie” to say Israel was causing hunger in Gaza.

Trump is under increasing pressure to intervene in the humanitarian crisis, with dozens of Palestinians having died of hunger in recent weeks in a crisis attributed by the UN and other humanitarian organisations to Israel’s blockade of almost all aid into the territory.

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In meetings with Keir Starmer – including a rambling 70-minute press conference at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland – the president also said he was losing patience with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine and vowed to impose sanctions on Russia’s trading partners within 10-12 days if there was no ceasefire.

He heaped praise on Starmer, but in a domestic intervention that will not have been appreciated by the British prime minister, Trump urged him to cut taxes and tackle illegal immigration to win the next election.

Starmer privately pressed Trump on Gaza during the trip, government sources said.

The US president told reporters that Israel bore “a lot of responsibility” for the crisis in a rebuke to Netanyahu, who had claimed earlier on Monday that there was “no starvation in Gaza”.

Asked whether he agreed with this assessment, Trump said: “I don’t know. Based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry.”

He later added: “We can save a lot of people, I mean some of those kids. That’s real starvation; I see it and you can’t fake that. So we’re going to be even more involved.”

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Asked what he would ask Netanyahu for next time they spoke, Trump said: “We’re giving money and we’re giving food, but we’re over here … I want him to make sure they get the food. I want to make sure they get the food, every ounce of food.”

Trump criticised Hamas for not releasing the remaining hostages and said the militant group was “very difficult to deal with”, while suggesting he had asked the Israeli government to change its approach. “I told Israel, I told Bibi, that you have to now maybe do it a different way,” he said.

The president was speaking before a bilateral meeting with Starmer, who flew to Ayrshire to meet him on Monday. The two leaders were due to visit Trump’s second golf course in Aberdeenshire and have dinner together on Monday evening.

Trump said he was “very disappointed” with Putin and was “not so interested in talking to him any more” because of his decision to continue airstrikes against civilian targets in Ukraine.

“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump said. “You have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that’s not the way to do it.”

Trump said he would cut his 50-day deadline for a ceasefire to between 10 and 12 days before he imposed secondary sanctions on Russia’s trading partners.

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He piled pressure on Starmer to cut taxes and immigration, calling the prime minister and Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, “good men”.

“I assume there’s a thing going on between you and Nigel and that’s OK,” Trump said. “But generally speaking, the one who cuts taxes the most, the one who gives you the lowest energy prices and the best kind of energy, the one that keeps you out of wars … I think the one that’s toughest and most competent on immigration is going to win the election.”

Speaking alongside Trump, Starmer told the press conference that the British public were “revolted” at the “absolute catastrophe” in Gaza and said there was an urgent need for a ceasefire.

Israel announced over the weekend that it would suspend fighting in three areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day and open secure routes for aid delivery, while the UK confirmed it was working with Jordan to carry out airdrops into the territory.

Starmer is due to convene an emergency cabinet meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Tuesday afternoon. Ministers will be presented with a peace plan which the UK is working up alongside France and Germany.

The prime minister is under pressure from senior cabinet ministers and more than 220 MPs to immediately recognise Palestine as a state, after Emmanuel Macron announced that France would do so at the UN general assembly in September. Trump dismissed the idea on Monday but suggested he had no objection to the UK or other allies doing so.

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Trump also said the US and its allies would set up “walk-in” food centres without barriers in the region, though he gave little detail about how these would operate.

On Monday afternoon, about 100 protesters gathered in Balmedie, the closest village to Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course, waving Palestinian flags and chanting: “You are not welcome here.”

Kay Collin, a retired modern studies teacher, said she had made the trip from Edinburgh because “watching what is happening in Gaza, if it was happening to my grandchildren I would hope other people would stand up for them”.

While many people cited the starvation crisis in Gaza as the most urgent reason for their protest, Trump’s policies on immigration, transgender rights and cuts to international aid, and there were placards and chants accusing him of misogyny and bullying behaviour.

Jenna Harpin, a mother of four from Portsoy, said she was “disgusted” at how much money was being spent by the Scottish and UK governments on hosting Trump’s visit, especially at a time when local councils were making cuts to vital services.

The protesters marched through the village as the police presence swelled in anticipation of Trump’s arrival. Local access had been significantly restricted with lines of police officers blocking off the beach and snipers spotted on the dunes.

The US was the only country to vote against the measure on Wednesday while the 14 other members of the council voted in favour.

The resolution also called for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza, but Washington said it was a “non-starter” because the ceasefire demand is not directly linked to the release of captives.

In remarks before the start of the voting, Acting US Ambassador Dorothy Shea made her country’s opposition to the resolution, put forward by 10 countries on the 15-member council, painfully clear, which she said “should come as no surprise”.

China’s Ambassador Fu Cong said Israel’s actions have “crossed every red line” of international humanitarian law and seriously violated UN resolutions. “Yet, due to the shielding by one country, these violations have not been stopped or held accountable.”

Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara noted that the US veto makes it “so isolated.”