The IDF released an official map of the Security Zone in southern Lebanon on Thursday, delineating the area under Israeli military control. According to a military affairs journalist, the map includes the Beaufort Ridge, areas north of the Litani River overlooking Shia-majority Nabatieh, the Israeli-held section of Mount Hermon on the Lebanese side, and adjacent maritime territory. The map formalizes the buffer the IDF says it will not withdraw from, citing the security of northern Israeli communities.
The IDF this afternoon released what it calls the official map of the Security Zone in southern Lebanon. According to Noam Amir (Channel 14), the map delineates the Beaufort Ridge, areas north of the Litani River overlooking Shia-majority Nabatieh, the Israeli-held section of Mount Hermon on the Lebanese side, and adjacent maritime territory — a formal cartographic specification of the approximately 10 km deep buffer the military says it will not withdraw from.
The publication is the latest in a sequence of Thursday afternoon announcements on the same subject. At 13:03 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported the map's initial release and its 10 km depth. A later report confirmed that the prime minister's office, the defense minister, and the IDF had approved the exact wording. Multiple Israeli news outlets then added detail: the first version listed the Beaufort Ridge, Kfar Tebnit, and Ras al-Bayada; a subsequent version (credited to Noam Amir) added the areas north of the Litani and the maritime component. The IDF also separately confirmed that forces are established within the newly mapped zone. The latest detail — the maritime territory's inclusion — was first provided by Amir.
As The Zioneer reported on June 7, the IDF has retained freedom of action in southern Lebanon and has not withdrawn from any area captured in the campaign. Background reporting this week noted Lebanese army artillery fire in the Nabatieh area and an Israeli 'fire belt' strike pattern there. The security zone remains a unilateral Israeli declaration; no Lebanese or UNIFIL response to the map has been reported yet.
The map formalizes a policy position but has not been recognized under any ceasefire or international framework. Lebanese and UNIFIL official reactions, if any, have not yet been published.
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