🔴 Live: ‘Victory will be ours’, vows Hezbollah deputy in first speech since Nasrallah killing

Summary:

• Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Qassem on Monday said the group would appoint a new leader and continue the fight against Israel in his first speech since Hassan Nasrallah's killing. 
• An Israeli airstrike hit central Beirut for the first time in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday, hours after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people.
• Three leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were killed in Monday's raid in Beirut's Cola district, according to the leftist Palestinian militant group.
• Hamas said on Monday that its leader in Lebanon Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was killed along with some of his family members in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.
• Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in a televised speech that his country had "no option but the diplomatic option" in response to a question about efforts to end Israel's escalation against Hezbollah.

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Yesterday's key developments:

• The Israeli military continued to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday, saying it hit launchers aimed at Israel, a day after it announced the killing of the militant group's longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. Lebanese stade media said an Israeli airstrike destroyed a home in a village in the northeast, killing at least 11 people.
• Israel launched strikes at Houthi targets in Yemen after the Houthi militants fired missiles at Israel over the past two days. The Israeli military said in a statement that dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, attacked power plants and a sea port at the Ras Issa and Hodeidah ports.
• The Israeli military says it also killed Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, in an airstrike. Hezbollah confirmed his death, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)