A reserve soldier from the 679th Brigade was severely wounded after entering a building in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, where a gunman opened fire. Israel's Air Force struck the building after the incident; scans to locate the assailant continue.
A fresh encounter in southern Lebanon has left a reserve soldier from the 679th Brigade severely wounded, in what the IDF confirmed Friday morning is the third such severe wounding this week in Bint Jbeil. According to details reported by Doron Kadosh, the force entered a building in Bint Jbeil and came under fire from a gunman inside. The wounded soldier was evacuated; two additional soldiers sustained minor injuries and did not require hospital care. The Israel Air Force struck the building immediately after the incident, and scans are underway to locate the assailant — a search that was still ongoing as of this publication.
The Zioneer first reported at 05:56 Friday that the IDF officially confirmed a reserve soldier was severely wounded in a southern Lebanon clash on Thursday, with no location given (version 7). By 05:56, a subsequent version placed the encounter in Bint Jbeil (version 2), and by 05:56, the IDF confirmed it as the third severe wounding in the area this week (version 6). The brigade identity — 679th — was disclosed in version 5 at 05:56, alongside the detail that two other soldiers sustained very light injuries and that the IAF struck the building afterward. Unconfirmed Telegram reports earlier suggested an officer was wounded in Zutar a-Sharqiya on June 5, but that clash was never officially corroborated.
As The Zioneer reported on June 26, a separate Hezbollah grenade attack in Beit Yahoun wounded four soldiers — an officer moderately, three lightly — with the assailant killed. That incident, though also in southern Lebanon, involved different circumstances and locations. The current thread reflects a pattern of close-quarters encounters in Bint Jbeil, with the IDF progressively releasing tactical details since the initial confirmation.
What remains open: The assailant in the Bint Jbeil encounter has not been located, and no claim of responsibility or affiliation has been reported. The full extent of the wounded soldier's injuries has not been detailed beyond the IDF's classification as "severe."
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