Hezbollah escalates fiber-optic drone attacks amid ceasefire in northern Israel

At least 2,659 people killed in Lebanon over two months of Israeli offensive; seven additional deaths reported during ceasefire period.

Along the northern edge of Israel, a ceasefire meant to quiet two months of devastating conflict has instead become the stage for a quiet technological escalation. Hezbollah has introduced fiber-optic guided drones—cheap, unjammable, and nearly invisible to conventional defenses—into a truce that has already claimed seven more lives even as it was meant to spare them. With 2,659 Lebanese dead in the preceding offensive, the agreement on paper has not yet become peace on the ground, and the introduction of this new weapon suggests that the nature of the conflict itself may be changing beneath t

Hezbollah escalates fiber-optic drone attacks amid ceasefire in northern Israel

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