{"id":399197,"date":"2026-04-18T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/399197\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:21:09","slug":"israeli-soldier-succumbs-to-wounds-from-southern-lebanon-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/399197\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli soldier succumbs to wounds from southern Lebanon bomb blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n<p>18 April 2026\u2022Update: 18 April 2026<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli soldier, who sustained injuries in a bomb explosion in southern Lebanon on Friday, succumbed to his wounds, the Israeli army said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The military said Warrant Officer (res.) Barak Kalfon, 48, \u201cdied of wounds sustained during combat in southern Lebanon\u201d after a reserve paratroopers unit \u201ctriggered an explosive device during an operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kalfon served as \u201ca fighter in the 7056th Battalion of the 226th Brigade,\u201d the army said.<\/p>\n<p>The army added that three other soldiers were wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rania Abushamala 18 April 2026\u2022Update: 18 April 2026 An Israeli soldier, who sustained injuries in a bomb explosion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":{"0":"post-399197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sitekeywords"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}