Overview
- Israeli forces kept up ground raids and strikes in southern villages during the declared truce, with homes blown up in and around the town of Bint Jbeil.
- Israeli commanders told Haaretz the army is flattening civilian areas using excavators and paid contractors, who log the number of buildings torn down in each sector.
- Sources described schools and other civilian sites being cleared south of a new Israeli “yellow line,” drawn about 20 kilometers below the Litani River.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah’s leadership and said Israeli troops would not pull back from areas now under their control.
- Reported tolls point to roughly 2,300 people killed, more than 7,500 wounded, and about 1.2 million displaced nationwide, as a UN review counted over 10,000 truce violations since 2024 and diplomacy in Washington struggles to gain traction.