A Hezbollah terrorist threw a grenade at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon Friday morning, wounding four soldiers including an officer, the military said. The troops returned fire and killed the attacker.
The IDF confirmed Friday morning that a Hezbollah fighter who threw a grenade at troops in the Beit Ya'hon area of southern Lebanon was killed by return fire. Four soldiers — among them officers and combat troops — were wounded in the encounter, the military said.
The incident is the latest in a sequence of close-quarters engagements reported by The Zioneer since Friday 04:57 Jerusalem, when the first version of this story cited a single source reporting casualties on both sides. By 04:57, the IDF had confirmed that four soldiers were wounded by a Hezbollah grenade, with the terrorist killed. A subsequent update at the same timestamp specified that one officer was moderately wounded and three others lightly hurt in the Beit Ya'hon area, and that the 91st Division's fire division struck terrorist infrastructure in the sector. The military has now confirmed in its latest statement that the attacker was killed by the troops' return fire — a detail that had been reported from the start but is now formally on record.
As The Zioneer previously reported, southern Lebanon has seen sustained ground operations against Hezbollah infrastructure. On June 18, a reservist was killed and seven troops were wounded by a Hezbollah IED in the region; on June 19, four soldiers were killed in overnight combat; and on June 20, five soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in two separate incidents. The broader campaign has involved close-quarters fighting, tunnel operations, and persistent rocket and drone fire from Hezbollah.
The condition of the four wounded soldiers has not been released beyond the initial severity classifications — one moderate, three light. No additional details on the operational context of the encounter have been provided beyond the location of Beit Ya'hon.
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