{"id":552462,"date":"2026-07-21T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552462\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:00:12","slug":"lebanese-army-claims-idf-opened-fire-at-soldiers-deploying-to-pilot-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552462\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Army claims IDF opened fire at soldiers deploying to pilot zones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IDF<\/a> reportedly opened fire in the vicinity of Lebanese Army troops in Zawtar al-Gharbiya, an area in the city of Nabatiya, during the implementation of the “Safe Zone” pilot program<\/a> on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).<\/p>\n

A source in the IDF told KAN News that they opened fire after Lebanese soldiers crossed the established borders of the pilot zone.<\/p>\n

The LAF claimed that this was an attempt to obstruct the implementation of the pilot zones by stopping Lebanese soldiers from entering them.<\/p>\n

The pilot program dictates that LAF troops will enter designated areas in southern Lebanon to verify they have been cleared of Hezbollah<\/a> operatives and weapons, two people familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, the IDF confirmed that the “Safe Zone” pilot program had begun with cooperation from the US and Lebanese militaries.<\/p>\n

“As part of the pilot, teams from the IDF, the US military<\/a>, and the Lebanese Armed Forces are coordinating and planning the continued implementation of the agreement,” the military stated.<\/p>\n

Amichai Stein contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF reportedly opened fire in the vicinity of Lebanese Army troops in Zawtar al-Gharbiya, an area in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,86,1031,236795,196851,9632,88,47,2899,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-lebanon-peace-deal","tag-lebanese-armed-forces","tag-lebanese-army","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east","tag-military","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\/552462","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=552462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}