Leaders with a Dearborn-based business group of Arab Americans sent a letter to Donald Trump asking for a ceasefire in the Middle East.

At least four Lebanese paramedics were among six killed in an Israeli strike on a civil defence centre in the country’s south while at least eight others, including five women, were killed and 27 wounded in a strike on Baalbek city, the health ministry reports.

During the session, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said there must be "no forcible displacement, nor policy of starvation in Gaza" by Israel, warning such policies would have implications under U.S. and international law.