Live Updates: Rocket barrage sent toward Haifa and West Bank, Lebanese citizens told to evacuate

IDF Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi announced that the name of the operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon is "Northern Arrows."

Hamas' armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said that its field commander in southern Lebanon, Mahmoud al Nader, was killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Monday.

Egypt's foreign ministry called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene immediately to stop the escalation in Lebanon, according to AFP.

Sirens sounded across Haifa for the first time since the start of the war, with sirens sounding across the lower and upper cities and in the surrounding bay areas.

The IDF spokesman said on Monday that "the IDF is now targeting Beirut" and that more details were to follow.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed recent developments on the northern border with Lebanon in a statement to the Israeli public on Monday. 

A senior Hezbollah official, Ali Aburia, was reportedly killed in one of the IAF strikes on Lebanon, Sky News Arabia reported on Monday, citing multiple sources. 

A rocket fired from Lebanon directly hit a house in Givat Avni in the Lower Galilee, according to Israeli media on Monday.

Israel Fire and Rescue teams said they arrived at the scene and cut off energy sources to prevent a fire from developing in the building.

Despite the fall, the people living in the house were unharmed, as they stayed in the shelter until after the alarms, Fire and Rescue added.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced Israel's "destructive plan" after the Israeli air force carried out several waves of attacks, Al Arabiya reported on Monday.

“The continuing Israeli aggression on Lebanon is a war of extermination in every sense of the word and a destructive plan that aims to destroy Lebanese villages and towns,” Mikati told a cabinet meeting.

He reportedly urged the UN to "deter Israeli aggression." 

The command of UNIFIL, the UN force in Lebanon, ordered all of its civilian employees to leave with their families to safe areas north of the Litani River, security sources told the Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar newspaper on Monday.