IDF officer, soldier wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank fire in southern Lebanon

An officer and soldier from the IDF's Givati Brigade were wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank fire in southern Lebanon on Thursday, the military said in an evening statement. The officer was severely wounded, and the soldier was moderately injured, the IDF said. Both individuals were evacuated to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa to receive medical treatment, the IDF added, noting that their families had been notified.

The incident is the second of its kind in as many days, raising the total of IDF soldiers wounded in southern Lebanon to four. The IDF conducted strikes on Hezbollah targets in the Dahiyeh area of Beirut on Thursday night. The military announced this minutes after sirens were triggered throughout Israel by Iranian missile launches. Two IDF tank soldiers were moderately wounded during operations in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Wednesday.

The soldiers were wounded as a result of an anti-tank missile fired against them, the military said. Notably, the two soldiers are the IDF’s first wounded soldiers from ground operations in southern Lebanon, which began earlier this week. The pair were evacuated to a nearby hospital, and their families were notified. (Ed note: The Dahiyeh area is a densely populated, primarily Shia Muslim area located in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. The city of Sidon is about 27 milles south of the Dahiyeh area of Beirut, and the city of Tyre is about 50 miles south of that area.) (Read More)