Overview
- President Joseph Aoun asked visiting U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus to activate the Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Committee and to press for an end to near-daily Israeli strikes.
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports more than 20 people killed by Israeli attacks in October, while the UN says it has verified 111 civilian deaths in Lebanon since the ceasefire.
- UNIFIL said an Israeli drone dropped a grenade near a peacekeeping patrol and an Israeli tank fired a shot near Kfar Kila, calling the incidents violations of Resolution 1701.
- The Lebanese army is sealing newly discovered caches and tunnels in the south after running out of demolition explosives as it awaits U.S.-supplied charges to resume demolitions.
- Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem reaffirmed the group will not surrender its weapons as analysts and a new study report Iranian-backed rebuilding even as Israel keeps forces at five southern positions.