Overview
- The Israeli army says its forces now control Wadi Salouqi in southern Lebanon and have killed Hezbollah fighters during recent ground operations.
- Israeli warnings have ordered residents to evacuate about 20 towns and villages in the south as airstrikes and shelling continued and reports of new civilian deaths emerged.
- Lebanese official tallies place the toll from Israeli military action since March in the mid‑3,700s dead with thousands more wounded, and state media reported recent strikes that killed people in towns such as Al‑Abbasiya, Tyre and Baalbek.
- Multiple reports say the United States and Iran are close to a preliminary framework aimed at ending the wider war, a development that has prompted Israeli military planning for a possible pause in the ground advance; President Donald Trump said a provisional deal could be signed imminently.
- Senior Israeli officials and opposition leaders have sharply criticized the reported U.S.‑Iran outline, saying it does not require Iran to give up its missile forces or curb support for proxies like Hezbollah and that those gaps threaten Israel’s core security interests.