{"id":498079,"date":"2026-06-17T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498079\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:19:09","slug":"five-idf-soldiers-wounded-in-hezbollah-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498079\/","title":{"rendered":"Five IDF soldiers wounded in Hezbollah drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five IDF<\/a> soldiers were wounded in southern Lebanon when an explosive drone<\/a> operated by Hezbollah hit their location on Wednesday, the IDF said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The drone reportedly detonated near a tank belonging to the Givati Brigade<\/a> in southern Lebanon early in the morning, the military said.<\/p>\n

The explosion caused shrapnel injuries to four soldiers, who were escorted to an evacuation vehicle when a few minutes later, another explosive drone struck the evacuation vehicle, injuring another soldier.<\/p>\n

The first four soldiers were safely delivered for further medical treatment at a hospital following both strikes. The fifth soldier, wounded during the rescue, was evacuated by helicopter.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah\u2019s drone attacks have emerged as a significant concern for IDF personnel operating in Lebanon and for communities along Israel\u2019s northern border in recent months. These attacks have become more frequent despite the formal ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

G7 leaders called for an \u201cimmediate robust ceasefire\u201d in Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah during the G7 summit in France on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed,\u201d Trump said, according to a June 16 post on X\/Twitter by Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to knock down an apartment house every time you\u2019re looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they\u2019re not all Hezbollah,\u201d Trump went on to say.<\/p>\n

Avi Ashkenazi and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five IDF soldiers were wounded in southern Lebanon when an explosive drone operated by Hezbollah hit their location…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4160,21754,78537,86,1031,85,47968,46,88,43],"class_list":["post-498079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-attack","tag-drone-attack","tag-givati-brigade","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-injury","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498079","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=498079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}