Israel said the IDF demolished Hezbollah tunnel infrastructure under Ali al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon. [1] BBC filed the demolition. [1] France 24 filed the blast as felt across the south. [2] A destroyed tunnel is not a cease-fire. Print the claim. Do not print a vacated south.

Netanyahu's sentence is a government sentence. It is not a Hezbollah confirmation. Troops remaining on a ridge are not a mapped security zone this desk will certify as finished. Print destroyed as Israel's word. Leave a named withdrawal to the edition that owns a named withdrawal.

Destroyed remains Israel's word on this ridge, not Hezbollah's and not a mapped end to the northern file.
Print the ridge. Keep it off Mokha and off Hormuz. Thursday's Red Sea port is a different fuse.

Destroyed tunnels get announced by one side and denied by the other; verification needs boots past the ridge. Thursday has Israel's word. The other word is missing.

Missing words matter; Thursday misses one. One-sided announcements hold. Boots verify later.

Boots verify later; Thursday has Israel's word on the ridge. The other word is missing. Keep it off Mokha and off Hormuz.

Netanyahu's ridge language demolished tunnels as an Israeli claim, not as a dual confirmation. BBC carried the demolition; the other side has not signed it. Feeling a blast in the south is not a mapped withdrawal. Southern Lebanon is not the Red Sea file.
The ridge claim is not a dual confirmation. Keep it off Mokha and off Hormuz. Netanyahu's ridge language is an Israeli claim.

Thursday's Netanyahu file is a ridge claim, not a dual confirmation. Feeling a blast in the south is not a withdrawal map. This desk will not spend Mokha as Thursday's tunnel.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem