The Israeli military reported that four soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon as fighting intensified. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Associated Press.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel's military will stay in southern Lebanon, where it has occupied up to 10 kilometers (six miles) from the border.
In a rare rebuke, Vice President JD Vance blasted Israeli officials attacking President Trump over his Iran deal, warning that Trump is "the only head of state in the entire world" currently sympathetic to Israel and urging critics to "wake up" to the country's reality.
Associated Press photographers captured smoke rising into the sky following Israeli strikes near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon. In the village of Halta, a girl looks toward what residents said was an Israeli drone flying overhead as a boy checks his family's water storage tank. In Tyre, buildings damaged by Israeli strikes are seen through shattered glass from the Jabal Amel Hospital.
The article credits Associated Press reporters Erin Cunningham, David Rising, and Jon Gambrell.