The Israel Defense Forces issued an evacuation order Wednesday ahead of airstrikes in Mansouri, in Tyre District, after announcing that Hezbollah had violated the ceasefire. [1] Thursday does not lift those leaflets. The IDF had not issued south Lebanon evacuation orders before strikes since July 11. [1] It still has not published details of the alleged violation. [1]

This paper's Wednesday file already treated the order as a targeting schedule wearing a ceasefire label. Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese media reported the same day that an improvised explosive device killed two IDF soldiers in Majdal Zoun, the neighboring town. [1] Hezbollah had not claimed the attack at ISW's writing. [1]

Wires that stop at the ceasefire-breach line will miss the IED. Feeds that stop at the IED will miss that the army named a breach and dropped leaflets on Mansouri. Thursday's completed record is still an order, a neighboring explosion claim, no Hezbollah claim, and the first south Lebanon notices in more than three weeks. [1]

A ceasefire that needs leaflets is a ceasefire that is already a targeting schedule. The paper will not invent two dead soldiers from a single aligned-media report, and it will not invent a communique that has not appeared.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem