{"id":500510,"date":"2026-06-19T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:53:07","slug":"ltc-dor-gedalia-ben-simhon-three-more-soldiers-killed-in-combat-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500510\/","title":{"rendered":"LTC Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, Three More Soldiers Killed In Combat In Southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The IDF announced that Lieutenant Colonel Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon was killed in combat overnight while fighting in southern Lebanon. The 32-year-old from Beit Hashita was a commander of the 52nd Battalion, the &#8216;Iron Footsteps&#8217; formation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">He died alongside three other soldiers after a suspicious target hit a tank in the area of the village of Tebnit. The IDF says it cannot be determined at the moment if the attack came from a drone strike, but the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">In response to the death of these soldiers, conducted multiple strikes across southern Lebanon throughout the night and into the morning. Lebanon state-run media reports 16 people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">It was also announced Friday that five other IDF soldiers were injured, one severely, in explosive drone impact in southern Lebanon. All were evacuated for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Simhon took command of the battalion after its previous commander was seriously injured in a battle in southern Lebanon about two months ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The families of the deceased soldiers have been notified.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"IDF soldier killed in Lebanon: Sgt. Nehorav Leizer killed in drone strike in southern Lebanon\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/transcoded\/54eaa6bd-e524-4e34-82d8-c3cb30ba2b9e\/poster.jpg\"\/>IDF soldier killed in Lebanon: Sgt. Nehorav Leizer killed in drone strike in southern Lebanon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF announced that Lieutenant Colonel Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon was killed in combat overnight while fighting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-500510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500510","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=500510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}