Overview
- UNIFIL escorted the remaining 83 residents out of Alma al-Shaab, and the town is now empty, according to its mayor, with an AFP crew observing the convoy near Naqoura.
- Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs following evacuation warnings, with live footage showing smoke over a targeted building.
- Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports 486 people killed and more than 1,300 wounded, and Hezbollah says 15 of its affiliated medics have been killed since the fighting began.
- Hezbollah claimed rocket salvos on an Israeli air-defense site at Mishmar HaCarmel near Haifa and on forces near Adaisseh, and said it shelled troops advancing by Aitaroun as clashes continued.
- The National News Agency reported the killing of Joya’s mayor Fawzi Fawaz and a council member in an airstrike, as additional deaths were recorded in Ouzai and Hnaouay near Tyre following new warnings to evacuate parts of Tyre and Sidon.