{"id":576167,"date":"2026-08-06T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:20:12","slug":"two-idf-reserve-soldiers-killed-four-seriously-wounded-in-blast-during-operation-in-south-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/576167\/","title":{"rendered":"Two IDF Reserve Soldiers Killed, Four Seriously Wounded In Blast During Operation In South Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed and four others were seriously wounded after an explosion during an Israel Defense Forces operation in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The soldiers killed were identified as Major (Res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, of Nokdim, a company commander in the 2855th Battalion of the 55th Brigade, and Chief Master Sergeant (Res.) Tamir Vaknin, 33, of Eilat, a combat soldier in the same battalion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">According to the IDF, the incident occurred at around noon while troops from the 55th Brigade were operating in the Majdal Zoun area of southern Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The force was conducting operations to clear the area and dismantle terrorist infrastructure when soldiers entered a structure that had been identified as a target.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"In response to 'blatant ceasefire violations,' IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_67581677986.jpg\"\/>In response to &#8216;blatant ceasefire violations,&#8217; IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">An explosion occurred shortly after the troops entered the building, killing Birenstock and Vaknin and seriously wounding four reserve soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The wounded were evacuated for medical treatment, and their families have been notified, the military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Following the explosion, the Israeli Air Force carried out strikes on targets in the area. The strikes were directed by the Northern Command&#8217;s fire control center in coordination with the 91st Division&#8217;s artillery brigade, according to the IDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed and four others were seriously wounded after an explosion during an Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-576167","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\/576167","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=576167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}