China stressed a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, urging Israel to stop attacking Lebanon and Syria. "The Middle East is now deeply mired in turmoil," China's permanent representative to the UN, Fu Cong, said during the 9907th meeting of the UN Security Council, emphasizing that Israel has "reignited the war in Gaza."

Despite a cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, the IDF targeted Beirut, Lebanon, with airstrikes Sunday while also killing at least dozens of Palestinians with strikes in Gaza as the war continues.

A huge plume of smoke billowed over the area after the strike, which hit what looked like a metal tent situated between two buildings, according to an Associated Press photographer on the ground.