UNIFIL is maintaining its positions in southern Lebanon despite Israeli demands to relocate due to heightened tensions with Hezbollah. UNIFIL reports frequent targeting by Israeli forces and nearby rocket launches by Hezbollah.

As Israel expands its strikes far from Hezbollah’s bastions into areas where displaced Shiites have fled, fears rise about worsening sectarian tensions.

A drone intercepted by a German warship off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday was armed and exploded, a military spokesman said in Berlin. The spokesman for Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, said "an explosive charge was set off" as the drone was downed in the "immediate vicinity" of the Ludwigshafen am Rhein corvette.