{"id":606356,"date":"2026-09-05T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606356\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:22:16","slug":"military-strikes-hezbollah-in-lebanon-after-drone-launched-towards-idf-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606356\/","title":{"rendered":"Military strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon after drone launched towards IDF soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IDF struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after the terrorist organization launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/defense-and-tech\/article-907307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drone<\/a> towards Israeli soldiers, the military said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to the IDF, the soldiers shot down the drone after it was spotted approaching them earlier on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>No <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-907459\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF soldiers<\/a> were injured in the attack, which was described by the military as a &#8220;blatant violation&#8221; of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The military noted that the soldiers were in the IDF&#8217;s security zone in southern Lebanon when the drone attack occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The mission was completed, and the tunnels were cleared of terrorists,&#8221; said Katz at the time, with an IDF statement on the operation noting that several terrorists embedded in the tunnels were killed, while others fled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">On Thursday, Iran warned the United States that it would respond forcefully to any Israeli attack on the Ali al-Taher ridge complex, which provides a strategic vantage point due to its position overlooking a wide area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cWe will destroy all national, military, and civilian infrastructure in Iran, including energy infrastructure,\u201d Katz threatened during a speech to Defense Ministry employees. \u201cWe will return Iran to the Stone Age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maariv, Ariella Roitman, and Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after the terrorist organization launched a drone towards Israeli soldiers, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16606,86,1031,85,46,88,43,37165],"class_list":["post-606356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-drone","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606356","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=606356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}