"Emergency workers searched through rubble in Beirut after Israeli airstrikes hit the Jnah neighbourhood and a vehicle south of the capital, killing two. More than 100 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 52 health workers, since Hezbollah launched retaliatory strikes on Israel as part of the US-Israeli war on Iran."

"Israel's defence minister has said a buffer zone will be set up inside southern Lebanon and that Israel will keep security control over a swathe of the territory even after the end of the current war against the armed group Hezbollah. Israel Katz said the area to be occupied would go up to the Litani River in southern Lebanon — about 30km (18.6 miles) from the border with Israel. He also said all houses in Lebanese villages near the Israeli border would be demolished."

"Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well."