Overview
- A 21-year-old Israeli soldier, David Hazut, was killed in Deir Siryan, marking the sixth Israeli military death in ten days, the army reported on Sunday.
- Israel’s chief of staff approved continued operations in the occupied south of Lebanon two days after Israel, Lebanon and the United States signed a trilateral framework to condition a phased Israeli withdrawal on Hezbollah disarmament.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel carried out a controlled demolition of a Hezbollah tunnel near Majdal Zoun that measured over 200 meters long, exceeded 25 meters in depth, and held hundreds of weapons and launch shafts.
- The IDF also reported strikes on three Hezbollah command centers and the dismantling of a missile-launch ramp, and it said it informed U.S. officials before the tunnel detonation and will keep troops in the south security zone.
- The Washington agreement ties any Israeli pullback to verified LAF control of pilot zones and Hezbollah disarmament, but continuing strikes, casualties, and Hezbollah criticism leave the pact’s implementation uncertain and sustain risks to civilians and displaced communities.