A journalist for Iran's PRESS TV was hit by a grenade dropped from an Israeli drone in the village of Tebnit in southern Lebanon, according to a single-source Lebanese media report. The correspondent, identified by the report as Hadi Huteit, was wounded in the leg and evacuated. The IDF has not commented.
A new report emerging just after midnight Tuesday (01:32 Jerusalem) says a journalist for Iran's PRESS TV, Hadi Huteit, was struck by a grenade dropped from an Israeli drone in the village of Tebnit in southern Lebanon. The allegation — carried by a single Lebanese media Telegram post — comes hours after the desk reported Huteit had already been wounded by an IDF airstrike in the same village on Monday afternoon. The earlier incident, first reported at 17:25 and then updated at 18:14, involved a drone strike on a vehicle that Lebanese state media said killed the driver and wounded Huteit in the leg. The current report does not clarify whether Huteit remained in Tebnit after that attack or returned; the relationship between the two events is not yet established.
This latest version marks the fifth update the desk has published on the Tebnit story since Monday afternoon. The thread’s first iteration (17:25) cited Lebanese sources saying Huteit, a Press TV correspondent, was wounded in a strike. By 17:25, Hezbollah-affiliated outlets reported at least one operative killed in a vehicle strike, and Israeli security sources described the action as an “immediate threat removal” near IDF troops. At 18:51, Lebanon’s official NNA confirmed one fatality in a drone strike on a vehicle in Tibnine – the same village – and identified the wounded as Huteit. Source quality has thus evolved from a single unsourced report to multiple overlapping accounts including state media, with the IDF declining comment throughout.
Tebnit has been a frequent IDF target since at least June 8, as recorded in earlier Zioneer bulletins covering artillery barrages, air force strikes on open areas, and firing to block residents’ return — all against a backdrop of ongoing IDF operations against Hezbollah assets in southern Lebanon. The broader context includes the US-Iran agreement, after which this week’s strikes in Tebnit were described as the first known Israeli attacks since the deal was signed.
At this hour, the new claim of a drone-dropped grenade is uncorroborated: it rests on a desk-reviewed report attributed to Lebanese media, with no confirmation from independent outlets, medical sources, or the IDF. Whether Huteit sustained fresh injuries, and the precise timing and nature of the alleged second attack, remain open questions.
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