"I’m still waiting for the door to open and for him to enter. He promised me that we would grow old and we would go live in the south together – but now he stayed there and I will stay here, in Beirut, forever,” Sana, said of her husband Ghassan, who left behind a 3-year-old son.

The families of the three journalists - cameraman Ghassan Najjar and technician Mohammad Reda from al-Mayadeen, as well as cameraman Wissam Qassem from al-Manar - will never be the same. They join journalists Essam Abdullah, Farah Omar and Rabih al-Maamari all killed by Israel.

Shrapnel at the scene shows a 500-lb MK-80 series bomb, fitted w/US-made JDAM kit which turns it into a guided bomb, was used in the strike.

1st pic is a remnant of Boeing JDAM tailfin. 2nd pic is the control section, cage code 81873 reveals it's made by Woodward.

Israel likely knew they were journalists too. The journalists traveled to a hilltop every day to film, driving press cars and wearing press flak. Drones were also above the guesthouse

The site was in line of sight of 3 Israeli watchtowers, which have tracking capacity up to 10km

A Lebanese soldier killed and 15 wounded in an Israeli strike on a checkpoint btwn Tyre and Naqoura.

Israel’s stated war is against Hezbollah — not the Lebanese state — but strikes have repeatedly killed Lebanese army.

This comes as Israeli troops begin to encircle Naqoura.

The sound of two strikes in central Beirut, just now. The third strike in Beirut in two days after weeks of calm in the capital city.

This comes as Lebanon objects to certain provisions of Israel’s ceasefire draft.

An Israeli airstrike hit the water company in the city of Tyre, one of dozens of strikes on civilian infrastructure in south Lebanon which have rendered the region near uninhabitable.

Tyre’s Mukhtar — a municipal official — was also killed in the strike.

Israel’s military claims that Mohammed Afif, the head of Hezbollah’s media unit it assassinated today, helped plan military operations.

This seems meant to counter what others are calling an escalation by Israel — by killing a senior non-military Hezbollah official today.

Israel just struck the headquarters of the Ba’ath party in Ras Al Nabaa, Central Beirut. It is the first strike in Beirut proper in over a month.

Unclear why Israel struck the Ba’ath party, whose role in the Israel-Hezbollah war has been negligible.