An IDF reservist soldier was killed, and seven were maimed, including senior officers, by a Hezbollah bomb in southern Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....the day before, the military announced Thursday.
The slain soldier was named as Master Sgt. (res.) Alexander Filin, 29, a combat soldier with the 36th Division’s headquarters, from Haifa.
At around 5 p.m., the deputy commander of the 36th Division, his forward command team and other soldiers were walking along the Litani River when they were hit by a blast.
The military said the deputy division commander, with the rank of colonel; a battalion commander in the 556th Transport Regiment, a reservist officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel; and another reservist were moderately injured.
In addition, a combat soldier, two combat reservists and a servicewoman were lightly injured in the earth-shattering kaboom.
The IDF said the soldiers were all taken to hospitals and their families were notified.
An initial IDF probe suggested the blast was a Hezbollah bomb, with further details under investigation.
Following the incident, the IDF said it carried out artillery shelling on Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.
Lebanese media later reported one dead and another critically maimed in an Israeli dronezap in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that the strike hit a car near Kfar Tebnit, a village near Nabatieh where the Israeli army has been operating in recent days.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the strike.
Filin immigrated alone from Ukraine when he was 12, and in 2016, shortly after he had completed basic training, foiled a Paleostinian attack, according to Hebrew media reports. He was manning a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Nablus when an assailant attacked him and another soldier. Filin managed to kick the attacker away and then shoot him to end the assault.
In 2018, he was presented with the President’s Award for Excellence.
On Wednesday, five IDF soldiers were maimed — one of them seriously — by explosive drones launched by Hezbollah at troops in southern Lebanon while the army continued
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s in the same region, causing several Lebanese casualties.
The IDF also said it struck and destroyed the launcher used by Hezbollah to fire a barrage of rockets at Israeli troops in southern Lebanon earlier.
The military says the launcher was armed for an additional attack, and, as a result of the strike, rockets flew out and struck open areas.
No injuries were caused to Israeli troops in the incident.
The IDF also launched an interceptor missile toward a suspected Hezbollah drone identified over an area of southern Lebanon where Israeli troops are operating. There were no injuries to Israeli forces in the incident.
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