IDF publishes first map of Lebanon Yellow Line as Beirut, Hezbollah reject occupation

Analysis
The IDF's publication of the Yellow Line map, corroborated across Al Jazeera, Al-Monitor, Xinhua, and Defense Post, converts a self-described temporary deployment into a marked, enforceable demarcation running 10 km deep across roughly 100 km of southern Lebanon, with the Kana offshore gas field now inside the zone, a specific geography absent from prior reporting that shifts the dispute from territorial to economic-zone dimensions and draws in Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptian offshore-licensing equities. Beirut and Hezbollah are very likely to frame the cartographic act as formal annexation rather than ceasefire compliance within days; displaced-population return claims become litigable at UNIFIL and OHCHR within the coming weeks; and any Lebanese government that might have endorsed a Gaza-style buffer framework loses the political space to do so.