Overview
- Lebanon’s health ministry reports 10 dead and 24 wounded in the Bekaa Valley and two more killed at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon.
- The Israeli military says it struck Hezbollah command centers around Baalbek and eliminated members of the group’s missile unit at three sites.
- Two Hezbollah officials told AP that eight of the group’s fighters were killed near Rayak, including local commanders Ali al-Moussawi, Mohammed al-Moussawi and Hussein Yaghi.
- Israel says the Sidon strike hit a Hamas command post inside Ain al-Hilweh, while Hamas acknowledges two members were killed but rejects that the site was a command hub.
- The unusually high casualty toll has drawn renewed criticism over strikes in civilian areas and heightened worries about broader regional escalation involving Iran and the United States.