Bint Jbeil

The advocacy activist and former Golani fighter marked exactly 20 years since the day he was wounded in battle during the Second Lebanon War. "The doctor said: 'Get me a helicopter for evacuation here now, or bring an armored ambulance at noon to evacuate a corpse,'" he recalled. Haddad sent a message to the wounded fighters: "There is light at the end of the tunnel."

Beirut has requested to expand the "pilot zones" in southern Lebanon to include two cities of symbolic and geographical importance. Israel has yet to respond to the proposal, and the focus of the talks in Rome remains on questions of the border, monitoring, and the removal of Hezbollah infrastructure from the area.