Overview
- - Israeli warplanes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday in the first strike on the capital since an April truce, with Israel naming Radwan Force commander Malek Balut as the target and Hezbollah sources confirming his death.
- - Azzam al-Hayya, the son of Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, died on Thursday after being gravely wounded in a Gaza City strike the night before, according to a senior Hamas official cited by Reuters.
- - A separate attack near the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis killed Hamas police colonel Naseem al-Kalazani and wounded at least 17 people, Gaza medics said.
- - Fighting has persisted under US-brokered pauses, with Gaza medics reporting at least 830 Palestinians killed since the October 2025 ceasefire and Lebanese authorities citing more than 2,700 dead in Lebanon since March 2 as Israeli strikes and Hezbollah attacks continue.
- - Hamas leaders meeting mediators in Cairo say they will not move to the next phase of Trump’s Gaza plan until Israel halts attacks, while Israel says the strikes aim to stop planned assaults, a standoff that raises the risk of wider escalation and keeps civilians under threat and displacement in Gaza and southern Lebanon.