Israeli strikes killed at least 27 Lebanese around 23 June, and Hezbollah answered with more than 175 projectiles in 24 hours, including 147 rockets, 20 drones and nine anti-tank missiles1. One Hezbollah drone killed a female Givati Brigade soldier at a border position2. This is fighting that the all-fronts ceasefire required by the Islamabad MOU was supposed to have ended.
The toll falls on civilians as much as soldiers. UN figures record 12 children killed or maimed in Lebanon daily despite the truce3, a measure of how little the paper agreement governs the ground.
The violence follows directly from Benjamin Netanyahu's order to hold his forces south of the Litani and the IDF's redeployment from Debbine to Khiam under a dynamic-defence posture. Each exchange is evidence of why the Washington round produced no joint statement, and why Iran's precondition for opening its nuclear sub-talks stays out of reach. The army that is meant to hold the border cannot hold a line Hezbollah is still firing across.
