American businessman and aide to president-elect Donald Trump, said he would take over the indirect negotiations between Israel and Hezbollah to end the war in Lebanon.

The Biden administration sent envoys including the C.I.A. director to the Middle East this week, but Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas all appeared far from a deal to end the fighting.

Israel launched deadly strikes on Gaza and Lebanon Sunday, rescuers and authorities said, ahead of a US deadline for improved aid delivery to the Palestinian territory.

Three people were also killed and two others wounded in an Israeli strike on Mashghara in the western part of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley late on Saturday, while one person was killed and four others injured in a strike on Sahmar,

Israeli strikes killed 20 people in Lebanon’s ancient city of Baalbek and the towns around it on Saturday, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Baalbek, in northeastern Lebanon, has increasingly come under attack as the Israeli military expands its campaign against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon over the last day have killed at least 40 people including several children, Lebanese authorities said on Saturday, after heavy Israeli bombardment pounded the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut overnight.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 20 people including three children in the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut.