The Israeli army occupied Beaufort Castle, a medieval fortress in southern Lebanon with strategic oversight of the region, marking a significant expansion of military operations on Lebanese soil.

# Good Morning from Al-Nahara: Top News and Analysis for Friday, May 29, 2026 ## 1- Al-Nahara Headline: Military Negotiations Today Amid Escalating Field Tensions Amid inflamed field developments widening in their shadow Israeli ground advancement operations that have reached the foothills of Beaufort Castle and are approaching Beaufort Castle fortress, as airstrikes expand having targeted Al-Shweifat yesterday at the edges of the southern suburbs in an attempt to assassinate a senior military commander in Hezbollah, it was not easy to make advance predictions about what the direct Lebanese-Israeli military negotiations round could end to, sponsored by the United States today at the Pentagon, pending the mechanism of these negotiations and their agenda, considering that the military character of the negotiations is not decided but rather the political character, but that does not diminish its importance. ## 2- The Beast on the Mountain... The Beaufort Battle That Has Not Left Israeli Memory Beaufort was never merely a stone castle overlooking the hills of southern Lebanon.