Israeli strikes killed at least 60 people and wounded 58 more in various locations in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley amid a surge of intensified airstrikes Monday, Lebanese state media reported.

The highest death toll was in the town of Sahl Allak in the Baalbek province, where 16 people were killed, according to the National News Agency, which listed deaths in 12 different locations in the Bekaa.

The EU foreign policy chief on Monday renewed calls for an "immediate ceasefire" in Lebanon and condemned Israel's "unacceptable attacks" on U.N. peacekeepers.

The offensive against Hezbollah has thrust the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission to the forefront of the escalating conflict in the Middle East.

Hezbollah said its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Monday, after earlier claiming repeated attacks on troops in the same area near the border.

Hezbollah fighters targeted "an Israeli enemy troop gathering" near Wazzani village "with a rocket salvo", the group said in a statement.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will meet Monday in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the the possibility of halting the ongoing war on Lebanon, media reports said.

Lebanon said Monday it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over an Israeli strike last week that killed three journalists in the country's south.

The strike early Friday hit a complex in the Druze-majority town of Hasbaya in south Lebanon where more than a dozen journalists from Lebanese and Arab media outlets were sleeping.

Hezbollah targeted Monday a military industrial company in Yodfat in northern Israel, southeast of Akka, with a suicide drone, in tribute to slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah later fired a barrage of advanced rockets towards a naval base in the area of Haifa, with the Israeli military saying Hezbollah launched more than 100 projectiles into Israel on Monday.

We watch video after video, consuming the world on our handheld devices in bites of two minutes, one minute, 30 seconds, 15. We turn to moving pictures — "film" — because it comes the closest to approximating the world that we see and experience. This is, after all, 2024, and video in our pocket — ours, others', everyone's — has become our birthright.

But sometimes — even in this era of live video always rolling, always recording, always capturing — sometimes the frozen moment can entrance the eye like nothing else. And in the process, it can tell a larger story that echoes long after the moment was captured. That's what happened this past week in Beirut, through the camera lens of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and the photographs he captured.

A stream of refugees fleeing Lebanon to Syria crossed a narrow makeshift bridge on foot Sunday in the Qusair area of Syria's Homs province after the official border crossing was put out of commission by an Israeli strike two days earlier.

Only three functioning crossings remain between the countries, which share a border 375 kilometers long.

A Lebanese family was holding a Sunday gathering when an Israeli strike toppled their building.

It was Sunday, family time for most in Lebanon, and Hecham al-Baba was visiting his sister. She insisted he and their older brother stay for lunch, hoping to prolong the warm gathering in stressful times.

The Lebanese health ministry said that Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least 21 people across southern Lebanon.