From 1h agoOpening summaryWelcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.Israel pounded Lebanon with more than 120 airstrikes on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said, as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was deepening its operations in the country.The bombing raids further strained a ceasefire announced on 16 April that was meant to halt fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and came as Iran said the US had violated a separate truce by striking southern Iran.Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes had killed 31 people and wounded 40, state news agency NNA reported on Wednesday. It said 14 people were killed in the town of Burj al-Shamali in southern Lebanon, including two children and three women.A photograph of a child lies on the ground after an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon. Photograph: EPAIn a statement on Tuesday, Netanyahu said the Israeli military “is operating with large forces in the field and capturing and controlling areas”.“We are fortifying the security strip to protect the northern communities,” he said in a reference to a self-declared security zone occupied by Israeli troops several kilometres inside southern Lebanon.Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had targeted Israeli forces and tanks advancing toward the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Sharqiya with explosive drones, rockets and artillery.Here are the main developments in the Middle East conflict: