Overview
- Lebanese health authorities updated the cumulative death toll to 4,106 after renewed Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon that officials say continued despite a recently announced truce.
- Israel has said its forces will remain inside southern Lebanon and lifted activity restrictions for several northern Israeli towns while asserting the right to operate from held positions.
- Israeli drone strikes in Gaza killed civilians and wounded others, and Al Jazeera said its journalist Ahmed Wishah was killed in a strike that the network called a deliberate killing while the Israeli military accused him of militant activity.
- The Israeli army displayed control of an underground site in southern Lebanon where it reported finding about 50 Hezbollah drones, which it says extend the group’s reach across the region.
- Diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran in Switzerland aim to solidify a wider ceasefire but negotiators face fragile progress as new attacks on the ground risk unraveling the agreement.