Overview
- The IDF and defense establishment are set to ask the cabinet to raise the reserve mobilization ceiling to 450,000 to enable a potential ground operation and extended deployments in Lebanon.
- The proposed increase would add about 190,000 reservists to the quota approved in January, according to Kan 11 News.
- Israeli forces have launched limited ground actions in southern Lebanon to enlarge a security buffer, including the reported destruction of a strategic bridge over the Litani River.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the IDF to compile infrastructure targets and sites used by Hezbollah to signal that Lebanon will be held responsible for attacks from its territory.
- A senior Northern Command officer told troops the fighting could run until Shavuos in late May as Israel discusses its buffer-zone plan with the U.S. administration.