UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s top diplomat is warning the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s strikes in Lebanon, Gaza, the occupied Golan Heights and his own country are propelling the region to the edge of perilous “escalation and confrontation.”

Israel has hit targets across Lebanon and killed 1,030 people over the past week according to the country's Health Ministry, as Lebanese-based militant group Hezbollah sustained heavy blows to its command structure including the killing of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

A U.N. human rights group confirmed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, who was recently killed by Israeli strikes, was their employee. Fateh Sherif was killed Monday in an airstrike on the al-Bass refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre,