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VaticanNews portal reports that at least five people were killed in Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks across southern Lebanon overnight and early Saturday, less than a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect. The violence follows a deadly wave of Israeli strikes on Friday that killed at least 47 people and wounded 97 others. The truce was announced after the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at reducing regional tensions. Lebanon was pulled into the conflict in March after Hezbollah launched rockets and drones into Israel, prompting an expansive bombing campaign by Israel, which now occupies about 5% of Lebanese territory in the south. Around one million people remain displaced, and dozens of southern communities have been heavily damaged or destroyed. While VaticanNews presents this as a humanitarian tragedy, the report is conspicuously silent on the spiritual dimensions of the conflict, the moral duties of the belligerents under Catholic just war doctrine, and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King over all nations—revealing the conciliar sect’s characteristic reduction of every crisis to mere political and humanitarian categories, stripped of supernatural truth.