Overview
- A Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon seriously wounded three IDF soldiers, a move the Israeli military said prompted immediate retaliatory strikes.
- Israeli airstrikes on Saturday hit Ansar, Deir al‑Zahrani and the Ali al‑Taher Ridge area and killed at least 11 people, including three children, according to Lebanese health officials.
- The IDF said the raids also eliminated senior Hezbollah figures named by Israel as Ali Samir Al‑Haj Hassan and Abu Hassan Alaa and that the strikes hit Hezbollah command and infrastructure.
- Lebanese leaders and Iran condemned the strikes as unlawful and said the victims were civilians while Israel accused Hezbollah of placing family members inside military sites and using them as human shields.
- The violence is the deadliest since the June U.S.‑brokered framework and complicates planned negotiations and redeployment steps, raising the chance of renewed border exchanges and adding pressure on UNIFIL and the Lebanese army to contain the front.