The IDF carried out a second round of airstrikes on the village of Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon overnight, following an encounter with a Hezbollah operative that left four soldiers wounded. The military says one Hezbollah fighter was killed in the incident. The strikes hit at around 01:30, hours after an initial wave at 23:30.
The IDF confirmed Friday morning a second wave of airstrikes on the village of Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon, hitting at around 01:30 Jerusalem time — hours after an initial wave at 23:30 Thursday. The second wave followed a ground encounter with a Hezbollah operative that left four soldiers wounded: an officer moderately, and an officer and two soldiers lightly. The military said one Hezbollah fighter was killed in the incident.
As The Zioneer reported, the clashes began around 22:26 Thursday when Hezbollah ambushed IDF troops entering Beit Yahoun, prompting artillery and airstrikes. By 01:26 Friday, the desk noted retaliatory strikes on the village after the wounding of four soldiers, and within the same minute reported simultaneous IAF strikes on the Nabatieh area. An unconfirmed Telegram report earlier that day, cited by The Zioneer at 18:04 Jerusalem on Friday June 5, had described a severe wounding in a separate Hezbollah clash — a pattern that remained unconfirmed by the IDF at the time.
Friday's announcement from the IDF, after families were notified, upgraded the source quality from initial reports and unconfirmed claims to an official on-record confirmation, providing precise casualty grades and the death of the Hezbollah operative. The context includes a cross-reference to a grenade attack on Friday June 5 that described a similar pattern: four soldiers wounded, one moderately, in a Hezbollah ceasefire violation — also confirmed by the IDF.
It remains unclear whether the second wave of airstrikes targeted the fleeing Hezbollah operative or fixed infrastructure in Beit Yahoun. The IDF has not elaborated on the nature of the second target set.
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