Updates: Israel bombs eastern and southern Lebanon, bans UNRWA

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• Read about how the Israeli parliament approved a controversial bill to ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating on Israeli territory and areas under Israel’s control here.
• You can also view our photo gallery of the Israeli air strikes on the Lebanese historic city of Tyre here.
• Finally, you can listen to The Take podcast, which discusses whether Iran will retaliate after Israel’s latest attack here.

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But before we do, here’s a recap of the day’s major developments:

• Baalbek in eastern Lebanon has been pummeled by Israeli strikes, resulting in dozens of deaths.
• Israel has carried out multiple attacks on buildings in the ancient coastal city of Tyre, where at least seven people were killed.
• Hezbollah says it fired a barrage of rockets towards a naval base in the area of Haifa in northern Israel.
• Two Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in Israeli shelling of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
• Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed a law banning the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from operating inside the country.
• Yemen’s Houthi group says it has carried out three operations targeting ships in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea.
• South Africa has filed evidence of a genocide committed by Israel in Gaza with the International Court of Justice.

US ‘complicit in Israeli aggression’: Iran’s UN envoy

Amir Saeid Iravani has told the UN’s Security Council that the US government is “complicit in Israeli aggression and will bear its consequences”.

The envoy also said that Iran “reserves its inherent right to respond at a time of its choosing” to Israel’s attack on Saturday.