On August 26, local time, Pentagon Press Secretary Ryder held a closed-door press conference. Ryder said that the United States did not participate in Israel's "preemptive" strike against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The United States did provide some intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance support to Israel to track the upcoming attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon, but did not take any action.

Reid also said that on the evening of the 24th and the morning of the 25th, Eastern Time, US Secretary of Defense Austin spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Galant to discuss the actions taken by Israel to defend against attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

In the early morning of the 25th local time, the situation between Israel and Lebanon suddenly became tense. The Israeli military announced that after detecting that Hezbollah in Lebanon was preparing to launch a "large-scale" attack, it launched a "preemptive" strike against Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah issued a statement denying this and announced that it would launch a large number of drones and rockets at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli airstrike that killed its military leader Shukur in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, last month. At the same time, it announced that the first phase of the attack was a success.