Hezbollah deputy declares 'new phase' of battle with Israel

Hezbollah said it is in an "open-ended battle of reckoning with Israel." Israeli's PM said the military "landed a serious of blows on Hezbollah." DW has the latest.

Lebanon's Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets early Sunday across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel.

There are reports of damaged buildings and rockets landing close to the Israeli port city of Haifa.

The barrage comes after Israeli warplanes carried out some of its most intense strikes on Lebanon after fighting between the two sides picked up following Hamas' attack against Israel last October.

Here are the main headlines from the escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, the Israel-Hamas war and the wider Middle East on Sunday, September 22: