Overview
- Lebanon’s health ministry reports 41 dead and 40 wounded in and around Nabi Sheet, including four Lebanese security personnel, after a night of explosions and airstrikes.
- The IDF says the overnight mission near Nabi Sheet yielded no trace of Ron Arad, that prior evacuation warnings were issued, and that no Israeli soldiers were injured.
- Hezbollah says its fighters engaged the raiding force after helicopters crossed from Syria and that roughly 40 Israeli airstrikes covered the commandos’ withdrawal.
- The military describes the effort as a response to a rare operational lead and says the search ruled out one line of inquiry in the decades-long investigation into Arad’s fate.
- Ron Arad’s wife publicly urged Israeli leaders to stop risky recovery missions, and Lebanese media reported a new pre-dawn helicopter insertion in the same area that Israel has not confirmed.