The IDF said Friday that five soldiers were wounded overnight in a Hezbollah explosive drone strike on Commando Brigade forces in the village of Kfar Tebnit, southern Lebanon. A reservist officer was seriously wounded, three reservists moderately, and one NCO lightly. The troops were evacuated to a hospital; families notified. The attack came hours after a deadly strike on a tank in the same area, the military said.
The IDF confirmed Friday that a second Hezbollah explosive drone strike in Kfar Tebnit, southern Lebanon, overnight wounded five soldiers — one reserve officer seriously, three reservists moderately, and an NCO lightly. The military said the attack occurred hours after a separate deadly strike on a tank in the same area. All troops were evacuated to hospital and families notified.
The first reports of this incident appeared at 09:36 Jerusalem Friday morning, citing Israeli media accounts of a reserve officer severely wounded and four NCOs lightly wounded. By the same hour, the desk had refined the location to Kfar Tebnit and identified the unit as Commando Brigade forces. The IDF's official confirmation followed, upgrading the casualty count to five and adding the moderate-wound category. At 10:28 Jerusalem, the desk published a story thread version noting this was the second drone-related wounding incident in the area in hours. The present update attributes the strike to Hezbollah.
This episode is the latest in a sustained campaign of Hezbollah drone attacks against IDF personnel in southern Lebanon this month, as The Zioneer has reported. The desk has tracked at least three prior drone-related casualty events among Israeli troops in the area in June, including a similar double-strike near the Givati Brigade's position in the Tabnit area on Wednesday. Earlier Friday, Lebanese and Arab media reported large movements of evacuees heading north from Tyre, Nabatieh, and Bint Jbeil following extensive IDF strikes; the Lebanese Health Ministry reported 18 killed and 40 wounded in the south, figures not independently verified.
It remains unclear whether the Kfar Tebnit drone strike represents an escalation in tactics or is part of ongoing patterns of harassment and anti-personnel attacks. Hezbollah has not commented on this incident.
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