{"id":438694,"date":"2026-05-12T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/438694\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:36:09","slug":"daring-covert-mission-north-of-the-litani-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/438694\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring covert mission north of the Litani revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Special forces from the IDF&#8217;s Egoz Unit and Golani Reconnaissance Unit crossed the Litani River last week to operate deep in Lebanese territory near the village of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, some ten kilometers from the Israeli border.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The operation is one of the most significant and brazen since ground operations in Lebanon began, as it broke the &#8220;Litani barrier,&#8221; a status quo in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">The forces crossed the river covertly on APCs and proceeded toward a main Hezbollah launching zone from which heavy rocket and mortar barrages have been launched toward IDF forces in southern Lebanon in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">During the operation, several close-quarters exchanges of fire ensued between the troops and Hezbollah terrorists. In one of the incidents, terrorists exited a tunnel shaft north of the Litani and opened fire. The commandos returned fire from short range.<\/p>\n<p data-v-753a4075=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">An Oketz Unit dog fell during the operation, and several IDF soldiers were wounded and evacuated to receive medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special forces from the IDF&#8217;s Egoz Unit and Golani Reconnaissance Unit crossed the Litani River last week to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[205715,165067,86,1031,85,46,62697,43,157487],"class_list":["post-438694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-egoz","tag-golani-brigade","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-litani","tag-news","tag-roaring-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438694","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=438694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}