Israeli independent daily; contextualised the timing as two days after the US-brokered trilateral framework and noted Hezbollah's pre-existing rejection of the deal's disarmament terms

Contextualised Operation Closing Verse as the first major Israeli ground operation inside Lebanon after the June 26 framework deal; noted Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem had already publicly rejected the agreement and its disarmament demands.

“Israel says it destroyed a major Hezbollah tunnel in south Lebanon, two days after signing a trilateral security framework with Lebanon and the United States.”