Washington has long pretended that Lebanon is a sovereign state. Beaufort Castle just proved otherwise.
On May 31, 2026, the Israeli military captured Beaufort Castle and the surrounding ridge in southern Lebanon. The operation marked Israel’s deepest ground advance since the 2000 withdrawal from the security zone and followed a wave of repeated Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks against northern Israeli communities.
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