Israel wakes to rockets, drone alerts on northern border after IDF captures Beaufort

Manufactured nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort masks a strategic failure

Israeli media and officials hailed the IDF flag over Beaufort Castle, but the symbolism obscured harder questions about the Lebanon campaign: what it achieves strategically, what was learned from past operations, and how Hezbollah's evolving drone threat continues to inflict casualties on troops

Israel wakes to rockets, drone alerts on northern border after IDF captures Beaufort

As the IDF deepens its ground operation in Lebanon, Hezbollah continues to challenge Israel’s air defenses with drone infiltration alerts and rocket fire across the Upper Galilee; the army says it launched an interceptor at a suspicious aerial target and reported no injuries or damage