(Aug. 2, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces told JNS on Sunday that it was \u201cnot aware of any IDF strikes\u201d that wounded Lebanese Armed Forces troops in the Bint Jbeil area.<\/p>\n
The LAF had claimed five soldiers sustained minor injuries in the town of Kafra, in what it described as an \u201cIsraeli enemy attack.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a subsequent statement, the LAF said an inspection by a \u201cspecialized unit\u201d found that the explosion had been caused by a \u201csuspicious object,\u201d rather than an IDF strike. It said the incident remained under investigation.<\/p>\n
The IDF said earlier on Sunday that soldiers from its 401st \u201cIron Tracks\u201d Armored Brigade had completed an eight-month mission in Southern Lebanon, during which they destroyed more than 1,200 Hezbollah sites, seized over 600 weapons and killed more than 60 terrorists.<\/p>\n
The brigade, operating under the 91st \u201cGalilee\u201d Division, conducted \u201cdefensive operations along the border and operations in the security zone in Southern Lebanon to remove threats to the State of Israel,\u201d the military said.<\/p>\n
The troops also dismantled terror tunnels stretching hundreds of meters with the assistance of the Yahalom combat engineering unit, the IDF said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mission was clear: to prevent and push back the threat to Israeli civilians. This was the objective we repeated to ourselves every morning and every evening,\u201d the brigade\u2019s commander, Col. Yoav Schneider, said in the statement. \u201cThe brigade\u2019s achievements in Lebanon came at a heavy cost\u2014we will always remember the brigade\u2019s fallen, and they will remain in our hearts forever,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Iranian-backed Hezbollah resumed rocket and drone attacks from Southern Lebanon on March 2, 2026, shattering a ceasefire that had been in place since November 2024.<\/p>\n
The IDF responded with a broad air campaign against Hezbollah targets and expanded ground operations in Lebanon aimed at preventing Hezbollah attacks on Israeli communities.<\/p>\n
Following the renewed fighting, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pledged to do \u201cthe impossible\u201d to end cross-border hostilities and moved to outlaw the Iranian proxy.<\/p>\n
Israeli and Lebanese officials later held five rounds of direct talks at the U.S. State Department, resulting in a framework of understandings reached on June 26 that is contingent on Hezbollah\u2019s removal from Southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 2, 2026 \/ JNS) The Israel Defense Forces told JNS on Sunday that it was \u201cnot aware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-572065","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\/572065","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=572065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}