Overview
- Israel said it carried out its largest coordinated operation of the war on Wednesday, hitting more than 100 Hezbollah sites within 10 minutes across central Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley.
- Lebanon’s health ministry reported dozens dead and hundreds wounded as strikes hit crowded residential and commercial areas without warning, and hospitals struggled to treat a surge of casualties.
- Pakistan, which mediated the two-week US–Iran ceasefire, said the pause covered Lebanon, and sources close to Hezbollah said the group halted fire around 1 a.m., but Israel declared the truce does not apply and vowed to keep striking.
- The Israeli military renewed evacuation orders for areas more than 40 kilometers inside Lebanon and urged residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to leave, compounding a displacement crisis that has pushed more than one million from their homes since March 2.
- Iran has warned it may withdraw from the ceasefire if attacks in Lebanon continue, and Lebanon’s prime minister appealed for international help, raising the risk that a localized front could upend fragile regional de-escalation efforts.