The State Department has published a Lebanon compliance text. Tyre still has no civilian-harm account in that text. [1]

The paper's June 2 piece on Tyre keeping the Lebanon story civilian argued that hospitals and civilian infrastructure prevent Lebanon from becoming only a strategic map. Earlier coverage of the Tyre hospital strike account made the same demand: an operational explanation, not merely silence.

The new statement names Hezbollah fire, South Litani evacuation, Lebanese Armed Forces pilot zones, and a June 22 follow-up. [1] The Guardian file keeps the Beaufort/Litani/Nabatieh geography visible as the diplomatic record develops. [2] Neither source, in the fetched stack, closes the Tyre question.

That does not make the Lebanon text meaningless. It makes it incomplete. Civilian accountability is not an optional appendix to territorial compliance. If a hospital story remains unanswered, the calm can be mapped and still morally under-documented.

The next useful document would name Tyre, describe the incident, identify the responsible body, and say what was examined. Until then, Tyre remains the civilian test the government language does not answer.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem