The Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said Israeli strikes on Lebanon would continue until it was safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has in recent days dealt Hezbollah “a series of blows it could not have imagined”.

Twelve people were arrested in six different Iranian provinces for being "operatives collaborating with the Zionist regime (Israel)" and planning acts against the country's security, the Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday,