Israel Says It Will Not Withdraw From Lebanon ‘Yellow Line’

Zamir's framing that nothing has changed is itself the signal: Israel is codifying a forward presence in southern Lebanon rather than treating it as a temporary post-conflict arrangement, and the tunnel destruction is offered as the operational justification. That matters most for Lebanon and for Hezbollah, whose response to a stated open-ended occupation is now the central variable, and for any external party that assumed the yellow line was a transitional marker. Whether this hardens into a durable new status quo, or draws a military or diplomatic response, is the open question worth watching.