Overview
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported four dead and three wounded after an Israeli strike in the Nabatieh district, with the state news agency saying a car was hit by a guided missile near Kfarsir/Kfar Rumman.
- The Israeli military said the dead were Hezbollah Radwan Force operatives, including a logistics officer involved in rebuilding weapons infrastructure, and called their activities a truce violation.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed “maximum enforcement” would intensify and demanded Lebanon fulfill commitments to disarm Hezbollah and remove it from the south, as Israel keeps troops in five southern areas despite the 2024 ceasefire.
- U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack estimated Hezbollah still has roughly 40,000 fighters and 15,000–20,000 rockets, labeled Lebanon a failed state, and cited Gulf offers of up to $10 billion for reconstruction contingent on disarmament.
- Prime Minister Nawaf Salam urged foreign pressure on Israel to withdraw and halt attacks, and President Joseph Aoun ordered the army to confront incursions after an Israeli raid in Blida killed a municipal worker.