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2026-10-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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IDF soldier killed, 3 others wounded after Humvee overturned in southern Lebanon
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[IsraelTimes] Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus named as fallen officer; military opens investigation; EU foreign policy chief urges extension of UNIFIL mandate to prevent security vacuum
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed and three others were maimed in southern Leb
 ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
on Thursday, the military announced.
The slain soldier was identified as Capt. Eliav Haim Tzapalamus, 21, from Haifa, who served in the 7th Armored Brigade.
The IDF said the maimed soldiers were evacuated to a hospital, and their families had been notified.
The casualties occurred when an IDF Humvee overturned during operational activity in southern Lebanon. An investigation was launched into the incident.
Including Tzapalamus, 41 IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah since hostilities escalated amid the Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
war, which began on February 28.
Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.
In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed more than 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since early March.
Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake...
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told AFP on Thursday that the bloc favors extending the mandate of United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
peacekeepers in Lebanon, set to expire this year.
"Our member states have been saying that there can’t be any security vacuum in southern Lebanon, so everybody is worried about the UNIFIL mandate ending," she said in an interview during a visit to Lebanon, where she met bigwigs.
"It would be most welcomed if this mandate is extended, so that is the position of the member states," she added.
No doubt. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which now counts some 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries, has been in place since 1978, although its presence has not prevented repeated outbreaks of conflict.
Under US pressure, the UN Security Council voted last year to end UNIFIL’s mandate on December 31, 2026.
But in March, Lebanese terror group Hezbollah drew the country into the broader Middle East war by attacking Israel, which responded with massive Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s and a ground invasion that Lebanon says has killed more than 4,300 people, without differentiating between combatants and civilians.
Israel maintains troops in a self-declared "security zone" running around 10 kilometers (six miles) inside Lebanon along the border.
Violence has decreased since a ceasefire following a US-Iran understanding in June, and a US-sponsored Lebanon-Israel framework agreed later that month.
The framework deal involves the disarmament of Hezbollah, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon’s south and the deployment of the Lebanese army to the region, starting in test areas known as "pilot zones," but the process has largely stalled.
Kallas said that in the US-sponsored Israel-Lebanon deal, "there should be somebody who is verifying whether the parties are keeping to their agreements."
"So, as long as you don’t have any kind of international force yet ready to do that... it’s dangerous when one mission like UNIFIL ends and the other one has not started yet," Kallas said.
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