{"id":498509,"date":"2026-06-18T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498509\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:19:08","slug":"idf-soldier-major-res-alexander-filin-killed-in-combat-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/498509\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Soldier Major (Res.) Alexander Filin Killed In Combat In Southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">IDF reservist soldier, Master Sgt. (Res.) Alexander Filin, 29, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon. From Haifa, Filin was hit by an explosive device Wednesday afternooon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The attack happened around 5pm when he and other soldiers were walking along the Litani River and were hit by a blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Seven others were wounded in the explosion, including the deputy division commander, a battalion commander, a reservist officer, a reservist officer, combat soldier, two combat reservists, a servicewoman. These soldiers were all taken to hospitals for treatement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The explosion is under investigation and an initial IDF probe says it cme from Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">In response, the IDF says it carried out artillery shelling on Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF reservist soldier, Master Sgt. (Res.) Alexander Filin, 29, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon. From Haifa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-498509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498509","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=498509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}