🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The current IDF offensive is an attempt to bypass/encircle Ali al-Taher, instead of approaching the heights head-on.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli helicopters operating over Nabatieh El-Faouqah, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Switzerland for the first round of talks with Iran on a possible nuclear deal.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike struck an apartment complex in the al-Thalathi area of the center of Gaza City.

Several Israeli helicopters are currently sweeping the area, suggesting that the IDF may have attempted a high-level targeted assassination.

One civilian killed, multiple others injured. The death toll is expected to rise.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- At the same time, an Israeli airstrike struck Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Death toll from the Israeli attack on al-Thalathi, Gaza City, rises to two.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli military convoy has infiltrated into southern Syria, between Hiraan and al-Rafid in the al-Qunaitra countryside.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Minister Ben Gvir’s tweet has been censored by X.

🇮🇷⚡️- As a result of the sanctions being lifted on Iran, the IRGC is poised to “win big” in terms of securing access to a potential $300 billion reconstruction fund, while also accruing funds from waived sanctions on oil sales, per Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Randy Fine posted “ABJD2028,” which likely means ‘Anyone But JD 2028’.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- A Lebanese soldier and five civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon today.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Clarification: Some of the helicopters observed over the Ali al-Taher heights, in the Nabatieh direction of southern Lebanon, were Israeli medical evacuation units.

Hezbollah reportedly struck a medical vehicle carrying wounded IDF personnel during the fighting. The incident has been described as a “mass casualty,” though the number of wounded—and whether there were any fatalities—has not yet been disclosed.

The IDF were yet again unable to capture the strategic heights, which hosts one of Hezbollah’s largest underground bases and provides full fire control over the city of Nabatieh. The night before, four IDF soldiers were killed, sparking a brief Israeli escalation and a possible Iranian retaliation, which required U.S. intervention.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Overnight, up to four Israeli helicopters landed at Rambam Health Campus, Haifa, carrying at least 10 wounded IDF soldiers.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Initial reports, one of the wounded IDF soldiers at Rambam Health Campus, Haifa, has succumbed to injuries sustained during overnight fighting at Ali al-Taher, Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

🇸🇾⚡- Explosions heard in the Idlib countryside, northwest Syria. Cause unknown.

🇫🇷⚡️- Claude Guillemot, co-founder and member of the board of directors of Ubisoft, died in a tourist plane crash in La Baule, France.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli outlet News of Israel reports that the political establishment is considering an escalation in response to the IDF ‘mass casualty’ event during last night’s clashes with Hezbollah over the heights at Ali al-Taher.

The night before, the IDF lost four soldiers, prompting a response of 80–100 airstrikes across Lebanon early the following morning.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Central Military Command has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

"Considering the blatant breach and violation by the United States of the first clause of the ceasefire agreement, and in response to the continuous and relentless violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon and the ruthless killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of oppressed people of the this [Lebanon] land, as well as the failure of the Zionist occupying forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, we declare that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to vessel traffic.

This is the first step in response to the enemy's breach of promise, and if the aggression continues, further steps will be planned and taken to compel the enemy to fulfill its commitments," - Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Trump administration has opened back channel communication lines with Israeli opposition figures Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next few minutes outlining American demands in Lebanon amid the ceasefire agreement with Iran, Yaron Avraham of Israeli Channel 12 reports.