Israeli Forces Seize Beaufort Castle, Expand Southern Lebanon Security Zone

🏰 SOUTH LEBANON — IDF plants a flag on a medieval fortress and calls it a security zone. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Beaufort dominates sight lines across southern Lebanon and into northern Israel — it's not symbolic, it's surveillance. Retaining it signals Israel is building a permanent buffer, not a temporary incursion. That makes Rubio's gradual de-escalation ask structurally harder: you can't ramp down from a position you've just declared permanent.