PARIS, Aug 26: Air France has decided to suspend its flights to Israel's Tel Aviv and Lebanon's Beirut until at least Monday due to escalating tensions in the region, the French news channel BFMTV reported on Sunday.

"Today's and tomorrow's flights are canceled," a representative of Air France said, cited by BFMTV.

According to the representative, the suspension of flights could be extended after the company conducts a new assessment on Monday.

Israeli and Hezbollah forces engaged in extensive exchanges of fire early Sunday morning along the Israel-Lebanon border, marking a significant escalation in their longstanding conflict.

Hezbollah announced it had launched hundreds of missiles into Israel in retaliation for the killing of its commander, Fouad Shokor, in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut last month. In response, Israel reported conducting numerous preemptive airstrikes targeting Hezbollah's rocket launchers in southern Lebanon.

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