#Lebanon / #Israel 🇱🇧🇮🇱: Hezbollah struck another “Merkava” Tank operated by the Israeli Army (@IDF) near Beaufort Castle (Qal'at al-Shaqif).
— War Noir (@war_noir) June 23, 2026
Fighters used a very common “Ababil” FPV Drone which is very likely armed with PG-7(L) pattern Anti-Tank RPG or ATGM warhead. pic.twitter.com/5tEBeFrYpK
Ali al-Taher Ridge Sector: Is Hezbollah Attempting to Undermine the Ceasefire?
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Ali al-Taher Ridge Sector: Is Hezbollah Attempting to Undermine the Ceasefire?
— Israel-Alma (@Israel_Alma_org) June 23, 2026
Throughout the day, two strikes were carried out against Hezbollah cells operating in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area in southern Lebanon and posing a threat to IDF forces. The two cells comprised a total… pic.twitter.com/uisvbs0kSa
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Ali al-Taher Ridge Sector: Is Hezbollah Attempting to Undermine the Ceasefire?
Throughout the day, two strikes were carried out against Hezbollah cells operating in the Ali al-Taher Ridge area in southern Lebanon and posing a threat to IDF forces. The two cells comprised a total of approximately seven Hezbollah operatives, all of whom were hit during the strikes.
Does Hezbollah, under Iranian direction, seek to undermine the ceasefire by deliberately creating friction with Israel in an effort to provoke an Israeli military response, erode the existing understandings, and increase international—particularly American—pressure for an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon?
At least 42 Hezbollah militiamen from Meis a-Jabal were killed since March 2, 2026, when Hezbollah fired 6 rockets at Israel
At least 42 Hezbollah militiamen from Meis a-Jabal were killed since March 2, 2026, when Hezbollah fired 6 rockets at Israel, sparking this war. Since then, the Israeli Army occupied this small town in southern Lebanon (where about 7,000 people reside) and destroyed it. Hezbollah… https://t.co/MOtRr99rKC pic.twitter.com/Rw8OJRZKo2
— Elizabeth Tsurkov (@LizHurra) June 23, 2026
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At least 42 Hezbollah militiamen from Meis a-Jabal were killed since March 2, 2026, when Hezbollah fired 6 rockets at Israel, sparking this war. Since then, the Israeli Army occupied this small town in southern Lebanon (where about 7,000 people reside) and destroyed it.
Hezbollah supporters in Meis proudly call it "the village of martyrs" due to the large number of Hezbollah militiamen from the town who've been killed in previous conflicts including the 2023-2024 war, and Hezbollah's intervention in Syria, which failed to prevent the toppling of Assad's dictatorship.
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IRGC officers are getting wiped out in Lebanon
🚨 The real reason Iran is negotiating SO hard on Lebanon & Hezbollah right now:
— Z Ghost. (@ZGhostbook) June 22, 2026
Their elite IRGC officers are getting wiped out in Lebanon.
Reports indicate more than 70 top IRGC (Quds Force) commanders and advisors — the people actually running Hezbollah’s operations from… pic.twitter.com/UzArIdwOZt
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🚨 The real reason Iran is negotiating SO hard on Lebanon & Hezbollah right now:
Their elite IRGC officers are getting wiped out in Lebanon.
Reports indicate more than 70 top IRGC (Quds Force) commanders and advisors — the people actually running Hezbollah’s operations from behind the scenes — have been killed by Israeli strikes.
These aren’t random fighters. These are Iran’s best military minds, embedded deep in Hezbollah’s command structure, rebuilding it after the 2024 hits (Nasrallah, Radwan Force, etc.) and directing the current fight.
Iran spent years (and billions) building Hezbollah as its most powerful proxy. Now that proxy is costing them their own blood at an unsustainable rate. Targeted strikes on IRGC Lebanon Corps officers, hotel meetings in Beirut, and precision ops have turned Lebanon into a graveyard for Iranian military talent.
That’s why Tehran is suddenly treating a Lebanon ceasefire as a red line in U.S. talks. They need to:
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IDF says it hit Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, as new Jerusalem-Beirut talks begin in DC
[IsraelTimes] Terror group claims civilians were killed, truce was violated; Lebanon’s Aoun voices hope that Washington talks will be ‘decisive,’ says he won’t accept less than full IDF withdrawal
The Israel Defense Forces said it struck armed Hezbollah operatives spotted near Israeli forces in southern Leb
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In the first incident, the IDF said a cell of Hezbollah button men was spotted in the Ali Taher ridge area, close to Nabatieh and north of the Israeli-held security zone in southern Lebanon. It said the operatives were targeted by troops "to remove the threat."
Lebanese media reported that Israeli fire in the area killed two and injured two in the incident.
Hezbollah disputed the claim that the targets of the strike were terror operatives, and accused Israel of opening fire on a "group of civilians" who were "working to clear roads and recover the bodies of deaders from beneath the rubble" near Nabatieh.
The Iran-backed terror group claimed that in doing so, Israel had violated the terms of a ceasefire that has largely held since Sunday.
"What the enemy has done constitutes a blatant violation of the ceasefire, which [Hezbollah] has adhered to until now," it added.
In a separate incident several hours later, the IDF said it fired on four Hezbollah operatives who crossed into Israel’s security zone in southern Lebanon.
According to the military, troops spotted the four Hezbollah operatives crossing into the zone in a bulldozer and on a cycle of violence near the Ali Taher ridge, "in a manner that posed an immediate threat."
After detecting the operatives, troops fired warning shots toward them.
"After the operatives continued to approach and did not respond to the forces’ calls, additional fire was carried out in order to remove the threat," the military said, adding that at least one was hit.
The flare-up in southern Lebanon came as representatives from Beirut and Jerusalem gathered in Washington for another round of direct talks hosted by the US State Department.
Tuesday’s session was expected to focus on both political and security issues, before being split off into separate sessions on the two topics on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
Israel and Lebanon were represented at the talks by their respective ambassadors in Washington, while State Department Counselor Dan Holler and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Dan Zimmerman represented the US.
The direct talks in Lebanon are not connected to the memorandum of understanding signed between the US and Iran, which dictates that hostilities are to cease across the region, including in Lebanon.
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’s demand that it refrain from attacking Beirut, but has kept its troops stationed in southern Lebanon, which would appear to go against the terms of the US-Iran
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Israel had no part in negotiating the MOU reached last week, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has distanced himself from it. Still, the terms of the opening clause, permanently ending the war and ruling out any resumption, indicate that it is binding on the US, Iran "and their allies."
Israeli officials are bitterly opposed to the deal’s terms, which resolve none of the war’s key goals — notably, eliminating Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and creating the conditions for the fall of the regime.
The Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon stretches across the entire length of the shared border, and extends up to 10 kilometers (six miles) into Lebanese territory, in some areas crossing the Litani River and reaching the outskirts of Nabatieh.
In a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office late Monday, Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that "the IDF will continue to act decisively to thwart threats to our soldiers and civilians, destroy terror infrastructure, and continue maintaining the security zone in southern Lebanon."
Lebanese authorities are eager to keep their negotiations with Israel separate from the wider talks between the US and Iran, as Beirut continues to try to minimize the influence of Hezbollah and, by extension, its Iranian backers.
The Washington talks have been somewhat sidelined, however, after US Vice President JD Vance announced the creation of a deconfliction mechanism in Lebanon, similar to the one established by the Biden administration as part of the November 2024 ceasefire it brokered between Israel and Lebanon.
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, and would limit Israeli military action to only responding to "imminent threats," rather than the broader category of "emerging threats."
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to consolidate a ceasefire in Lebanon.
The statement, issued at the start of the talks in Washington, added that arrangements for a mechanism to firm up the ceasefire and monitor its implementation were still being discussed.
Aoun, in his own statement at the start of the talks, rejected the ongoing Israeli presence in southern Lebanon, as well as other foreign interference, alluding to Iran.
"We accept nothing less than an end to the Israeli occupation and at the same time, the fall of foreign tutelage, because our only option is our national illusory sovereignty and our sole wager is on the Lebanese state," Aoun said, according to his office.
He also expressed hope that the new round of talks would be "decisive along the path of achieving what we seek for the good of our nation and people," namely, "the full restoration of Lebanon’s illusory sovereignty over every grain of its soil."