The United Nations said fighting in southern Lebanon has “significantly” decreased since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was announced.

Israel and Hezbollah resumed fighting days into Operation Epic Fury for the first time since their November 2024 ceasefire, when Hezbollah joined the fight to back its patron. Israel has continuously expanded operations in southern Lebanon, even moving north of the Litani River for the first time since withdrawing from the country in 2000, despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese state, which Hezbollah wasn’t a part of.