Iran’s mission to the United Nations today said that any country providing assistance to Israel will become a “legitimate target,” and advised other governments to stay out of the conflict.

“Our response will be solely directed at the aggressor. Should any country render assistance to the aggressor, it shall likewise be deemed an accomplice and a legitimate target,” the mission said in a statement. “We advise countries to refrain from entangling themselves in the conflict between the Israeli regime and Iran and to distance themselves from the fray.”

Countries in the region such as Jordan have helped Israel repel incoming missiles and drones by allowing the U.S. to use their airspace. The U.S. also has a number of military bases in Arab countries.

The statement added that the only communication channel between the U.S. and Iran was the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.

President Joe Biden said "nothing" will happen today when asked by a reporter on the White House lawn whether his administration would “allow Israel to strike back against Iran.”

“First of all, we don’t allow Israel, we advise Israel,” he said. “And there’s nothing going to happen today.”

A woman who was kidnapped by the Islamic State terror group more than 10 years ago has been rescued in Gaza, the Israeli military said in a statement today.

Fawazia Amin Sido was kidnapped "when she was only 11 years old,” the IDF said, adding that “ISIS terrorists trafficked her to a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in the Gaza Strip where she was held in captivity.”

Sido, a “21-year-old woman of Yazidi origin,” was “freed this week from captivity and returned home to Iraq,” the IDF said. The person holding her was likely killed in an Israeli strike, it added.

The operation to free her was “complex,” the IDF said, adding that the “secret mission” was coordinated by Israel, the United States and other international actors.  

ISIS was known to have taken Yazidi women against their will for the purpose of sexual servitude or forced marriages, according to many accounts from Yazidi women and human rights groups.

Bassem Naim, a Hamas political official, denied the allegations, sayin the woman was brought over to Gaza from Iraq by a Palestinian man. To his knowledge, she married the man and had two children with him before the man left her in Gaza with his family. Naim alleges that the government in Gaza tried to help her return to Iraq but she had no documentation.

He also said that separating children from their mothers is not within the group’s morals. "If this story is true, as I said, we condemn this act and we categorically reject it," Naim said.

Overnight Israeli strikes in Lebanon have become increasingly commonplace in central Beirut, fueling fears across the country and ruining sleep patterns.

Striking at night typically “privileges the side which has trained and prepared to do so, with sensors, visual aids and other technologies,” Matthew Savill, the director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, told NBC News today.

During Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces “were surprised to find Hezbollah ‘special forces’ who were equipped like their own specialists, including with night-vision goggles,” he said.

“This time round, with Hezbollah communications compromised, the Israelis no doubt calculate they can gain an additional advantage, though the complexity of night-fighting shouldn’t be under-estimated,” he added.

Lebanon's Army said today it had returned fire at Israel for the first time, after IDF forces targeted one of its posts in the south and killed a soldier.

"One of our soldiers was martyred," it said in a post on X. "The post's personnel responded to the sources of the fire," it added.

It came after the army and the Lebanese Red Cross said a soldier was killed and another injured by Israeli forces as they were carrying out an evacuation and rescue mission in the southern town of Taybeh.

The Lebanese Health Ministry says that 1,974 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in the country since Oct. 8, 2023.

This includes 107 children and 202 women, the health ministry said today, while some 9,375 people have been injured.

The Israeli military and Hezbollah have exchanged cross-border fire for nearly a year, but the last few weeks have seen the death toll soar as Israel has intensified its attacks.

The latest from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on the new wave of Israeli strikes in the city and on the direct military engagements between Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah. 

Two senior Lebanese officials have said that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah agreed to a 21-day cease-fire with Israel days before he was killed in an Israeli attack.

The temporary ceasefire was proposed by the U.S., France and other allies last week.

"They [the US and France] told us that Mr. Netanyahu agreed on this and so we also got the agreement of Hezbollah on that and you know what happened since then," Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour yesterday.

And this morning, the country's ambassador to the U.K. said the same.

"Hezbollah … subscribed to this joint statement that was issued calling for a cease-fire, 21-day ceasefire, and immediately after starting to look for a diplomatic solution in the framework of the security council resolution," Ambassador Rami Mortada told the BBC.

“We were on track trying to discuss a diplomatic alternative to the current abyss, but the hotheads in Israel chose a different path,” he said.

Videos appear to show Israeli soldiers and IDF helicopters conducting military ground operations in southern Lebanon.

In one video, it appears a casualty evacuation process is underway as IDF helicopters land in the Kfar Gil’adi area. The video circulated yesterday, as the IDF announced the deaths of 8 soldiers and many more injuries.