Overview
- UNIFIL has logged more than 10,000 ceasefire violations over the past year and reports that breaches occur almost daily, while also registering over 360 abandoned weapons depots handed to the Lebanese army.
- Israeli drones and jets continue operations across Lebanon, with at least 13 people killed in Sidon days ago and a Beirut strike recently killing Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tabatabai.
- The UN human rights office documents at least 127 civilian deaths since the truce took effect, and Lebanon’s health ministry reports roughly 300 to 331 total fatalities and hundreds of injuries.
- Hezbollah refuses to disarm and, according to recent reporting, has not been firing into Israel, as the under-resourced Lebanese army faces an end-of-year push to confiscate weapons in the south.
- The U.S. Treasury is cited as saying Iran has transferred about $1 billion to Hezbollah since the ceasefire for reconstruction and rearmament, and Israeli leaders warn they may move to disarm the group if Beirut does not.