Overview
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported four dead and three wounded in an Israeli strike in the Nabatieh district, with state media saying a guided missile hit a car.
- The Israeli military said the dead were members of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force, including a logistics officer involved in weapons transfers and efforts to rebuild infrastructure.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel will act as necessary and intensify operations if Lebanon does not disarm Hezbollah and remove it from the south.
- Under the U.S.-brokered 2024 truce, only state forces may bear arms; Lebanese army sources say they have destroyed so many caches they ran out of explosives, while Hezbollah asserts it is observing the ceasefire and rejects nationwide disarmament.
- U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack estimated Hezbollah retains about 40,000 fighters and 15,000–20,000 rockets and tied potential Gulf investment to disarmament, as Israeli officials allege the group is rearming with missiles smuggled from Syria.