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Executive Summary
Between 21 and 28 May 2025, Israeli forces sustained an unremitting campaign of precision strikes and aerial surveillance along Lebanon’s southern frontier, even as Hezbollah remained silent since the November 2024 ceasefire. Civilian vehicles in Yater, Aytaroun and Ain Baal were struck by drone-launched munitions, leading to fatalities and injuries. On 22 May, a coordinated air assault delivered twenty-two strikes against homes, observation posts and logistics nodes across Nabatieh, South Lebanon and the Bekaa. Daily low-altitude reconnaissance sorties over the Beqaa Valley, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the Tyre/Iqlim El Tuffah region set the stage for follow-on attacks. In late May, Israeli ground units crossed into southern Lebanon, setting fire to agricultural lands on 27 May and making further incursions on the morning of 28 May. Concurrently, Israel’s 28 May airstrike on Sanaa airport in Yemen, destroyed the last aircraft on the tarmac, underscoring a broader regional strategy of coercive aerial dominance .