The IDF announced Friday morning that five soldiers were wounded overnight in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack on Commando Brigade forces at Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon. A reserve officer was seriously wounded, three reservists moderately, and an NCO lightly. The troops were evacuated to a hospital and their families notified.
The IDF confirmed Friday morning that a Hezbollah explosive drone struck Commando Brigade reserve forces at Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon overnight, wounding five soldiers. A reserve officer was seriously wounded, three reservists moderately, and an NCO lightly. The troops were evacuated to a hospital and their families notified. The attack followed hours after a separate deadly drone strike on a tank in the same village, which killed four soldiers including a battalion commander — an incident the IDF announced earlier Friday.
This is the latest update in a thread The Zioneer has tracked since 09:36 Jerusalem, when the IDF first cleared the overnight incidents for publication. The earliest reports described four soldiers killed and an officer wounded by a single drone strike; subsequent versions refined casualty numbers and confirmed that a separate drone attack on Commando forces at around 04:00 wounded five additional troops. By version 5, the military was investigating whether a rocket had struck forces before the drone hit the rescue team. The final IDF confirmation, published at 09:36 Jerusalem, identified the location as Kfar Tebnit and specified that the wounded were reserve Commando personnel.
As The Zioneer reported on June 7, June 14, and June 17, drone strikes against IDF personnel in southern Lebanon have become a sustained pattern. A June 17 incident involved a double attack — a first drone near a Givati Brigade tank, then a second hitting the evacuation vehicle — wounding five soldiers. The IDF has said it strikes Hezbollah infrastructure targets in southern Lebanon in response to ongoing threats.
While the IDF has confirmed the number of wounded and their ranks, questions remain about the exact circumstances of the attack and whether it was preceded by additional fire. The military has not specified what triggered the Hezbollah drone activity in Kfar Tebnit overnight.
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