Overview
- Israel confirmed the overnight raid more than a kilometer inside Lebanon, saying troops targeted Hezbollah infrastructure, opened fire on a perceived threat, and launched an investigation.
- Lebanon’s health ministry and the state ANI identified the victim as Ibrahim Salamé, a municipal employee who witnesses say was shot while sleeping inside the town hall.
- President Joseph Aoun ordered the Lebanese army to oppose any further incursions, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called the operation a flagrant attack on state institutions and sovereignty.
- Reports also described the demolition of a ceremonial building in the border village of Adaissé, strikes on al-Jarmak and Mahmoudiyé, and low-altitude Israeli drone flights over Beirut.
- UN officials noted 111 Lebanese civilian deaths since the war’s end, UN peacekeepers called the Blida raid a violation of Resolution 1701, and ceasefire monitors pressed for placing all weapons under state control by year-end.