The morning began with four IDF soldiers from the Kfir Brigade falling in northern Gaza's Jabaliya area, continuing the pattern of casualties in urban warfare. By early afternoon, Hezbollah launched a deadly strike on Nahariya, killing two civilians - Ziv Belfer and Shimon Najam - in a carpentry workshop. Najam was identified as a former South Lebanon Army fighter who had relocated to Israel in 2000.
The IDF revealed extensive damage to Hezbollah's weapons infrastructure in Beirut's Dahieh neighborhood, claiming to have destroyed most of their long-range missile capacity built over 20 years. U.S. officials expressed optimism about reaching a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon "within days," while Trump announced Mike Huckabee as his future ambassador to Israel.
The Attorney General ordered 7,000 draft notices to be issued next week, including 4,500 for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, marking an escalation in the ongoing conscription debate.