An emergency worker picks up suspected body parts and puts them into a plastic bag as a member of the Lebanese civil defense searches for human remains in the rubble of a residential building where eight people were killed in an early-morning Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese village of Aramoun on Nov. 13. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)

Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, a top Lebanese official told Reuters, as Beirut residents grapple with intensifying Israeli strikes.

Israel has dramatically escalated its bombardment of Lebanon since September, vowing to severely weaken Hezbollah, which has been firing rockets and drones at Israel since it launched its air and ground assault on Gaza over a year ago.

Israel damaged some of Iran's nuclear program in its October attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday. Iran's air defense, ballistic missile production and ability to produce "solid fuel" were impacted,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel's air attack on Iran last month hit an element of Tehran's nuclear programme while degrading its defence and missile production capabilities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that part of Iran's nuclear program was degraded after IDF strikes on military facilities in and around Tehran in October.