🌲 - 🇱🇧🇮🇱🇱🇧 Lebanon's Internal Security Forces Information Branch confirms it arrested Fouad Khalifeh around two weeks ago, minutes before he attempted to leave Lebanon, following months of surveillance.

According to Lebanese security source, the operation was carried out entirely by Lebanese authorities without cooperation from any Arab security service.

Khalifeh is accused of providing Israel with intelligence on Hezbollah figures, monitoring the movements of individuals with security significance, and gathering information on patients wounded in the pager attacks through a hospital.

Khalifeh is the latest Shiite suspect accused of spying for Israel, following the arrests of Mohammad Saleh, and Ahmad Al-Mokhader.

🌲 - 🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧 Israeli army says the explosive device that killed a Lebanese soldier and wounded two others in Al Mansouri, Tyre District, earlier today was planted by Hezbollah, not by Israeli forces. The army says the Lebanese Armed Forces entered the security zone without prior coordination and that Israeli troops have not recently operated in the area.

🌲 - 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇷 Hezbollah Political Council deputy head Mahmoud Qamati threatens to prevent any aircraft from landing at Beirut International Airport if restrictions on Iranian flights and visas continue, saying, “Then no aircraft will land in Beirut, and no ambassador will remain in Lebanon.”

Asharq Al-Awsat cites Lebanese Foreign Ministry sources as saying the measures will remain in place, with Iranian flights barred following Israeli threats to target the airport and visa restrictions tightened after incidents revealed the presence of IRGC members and commanders in Lebanon.

🌲 - 🇱🇧🔴 Lebanon is preparing a legal framework allowing the Lebanese Army to search homes and private properties for weapons in the first pilot zones, beginning with Zawtar Gharbiyeh, following the Israeli army's withdrawal. Authorities are seeking broad judicial authorization enabling troops to conduct searches and raids across designated operational areas without obtaining separate warrants for each operation.

🌲 - 🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧 Israeli army says an explosive device detonated near two Red Cross ambulances in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, injuring several crew members. It says preliminary examinations indicate the device was most likely planted by Hezbollah. The incident occurred in the Mayfadoun area, outside the security zone in southern Lebanon.