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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam called for urgent international aid for southern Lebanon, describing the humanitarian situation there as increasingly dire and warning that support for families displaced by Israeli attacks cannot wait. Israeli air strikes continued to hit areas including Qantara and Wadi al-Salouqi, while a report described widespread destruction in Lebanon's border villages. Lebanon's army separately requested $3 billion to meet demands tied to Hezbollah's disarmament, saying international support remains limited. Adding to the grievances, a French legal complaint accused the Israeli army of uprooting and stealing centuries-old olive trees from a Lebanese family's grove, illustrating the range of damage—military, economic and cultural—accumulating in southern Lebanon nearly two years after the November 2024 ceasefire.