Israel's Control of Beaufort Castle Breaches the 2006 UN Boundary

Israeli troops captured Beaufort Castle on May 31, a medieval fortress north of the Litani River—the line UN Resolution 1701 designated in 2006 to separate Israeli and Hezbollah forces. The seizure signals deliberate expansion beyond the border buffer and suggests Israel may be pursuing a new security architecture rather than restoring the framework that ended the 2006 war. How any future ceasefire addresses this territorial shift will shape Lebanon's next decade.