Overview
- The Israeli military says overnight strikes hit Hezbollah command sites, weapons depots, and satellite-communications infrastructure in Beirut and Tyre.
- Israel claims the strikes killed Hussein Makled, identified by the IDF as Hezbollah’s head of intelligence.
- Additional Israeli forces were deployed inside southern Lebanon to hold defensive positions to protect civilians and strategic sites, according to an IDF spokesperson.
- IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir announced the start of an offensive campaign against Hezbollah.
- Lebanon’s health ministry, via AP, reports more than 30 people killed and about 150 wounded, and local media report Al‑Manar facilities were targeted and that MP Mohammed Raad was killed, which has not been independently confirmed.