Live updates: Middle East crisis

Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people in eastern Lebanon on Thursday, a Lebanese official said.

Bachir Khodr, governor of Lebanon's Baalbek-Hermel province, said at least 47 were killed and 22 wounded in Israeli strikes in the Baalbek region.

Posting on X, he said rescue operations were underway.

Beirut shook as Israeli airstrikes hit the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs about a dozen times, sending up clouds of debris, in some of the most intense airstrikes yet.

Residents have largely fled the area since Israel went on the offensive against Hezbollah in September.

The Israeli army said its strikes were against Hezbollah infrastructure and that it had mitigated civilian harm through advance warnings and other steps.

Canada will abide by all rulings issued by international courts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday when asked about arrest warrants the International Criminal Court issued for senior Israel officials.

"It's really important that everyone abide by international law," Trudeau told a televised news conference. "We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts."

International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan urged ICC members as well as non-members to cooperate with the arrest warrants the court issued earlier on Thursday against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif, Khan said in a statement on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Thursday rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants against him and his former defence chief, describing them as "anti-Semitic".

"Israel rejects with disgust the absurd and false actions leveled against it by ICC," his office said in a statement, adding Israel won't "give in to pressure" in the defence of its citizens.

Netherlands is prepared to act upon ICC arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dutch news agency ANP reports quoting country’s foreign minister.

Meanwhile President Isaac Herzog dubs the decision to arrest Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant “an absurd decision”. 

The International Criminal Court in The Hague said on Thursday that it had issued warrants for the arrest of Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (also known as Mohammed Deif) and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its former defence minister Yoav Gallant.

A man was killed when a rocket struck the northern Israeli town of Nahariya on Thursday, Israel's MDA medical service said.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson Omer Dostri has confirmed to AFP news agency that the Israeli prime minister will meet US envoy Amos Hochstein at 12:30pm local time (10:30GMT) for talks on a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, reported Al Jazeera.