{"id":196026,"date":"2026-07-08T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/196026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:32:12","slug":"idf-probes-killing-of-hezbollah-terrorist-amid-conflicting-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/196026\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF probes killing of Hezbollah terrorist amid conflicting reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDF soldiers killed a Hezbollah terrorist in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil<\/a> on Tuesday as part of an exchange of gunfire carried out while a soldier was conducting a search of a structure where a reservist was wounded last week, the Israeli military said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The military initially said the terrorist opened fire at Israeli forces operating in the building before being shot down. It added no soldiers were wounded in the incident, though a IDF military working dog<\/a> was shot dead during the exchange of fire before his handler returned fire.<\/p>\n

Later on Wednesday, the IDF said it would “investigate all the details of the incident, including the manner in which the terrorist was eliminated,” after an Army Radio report questioned the military’s account of the events.<\/p>\n

According to Army Radio, citing soldiers present at the scene, Israeli troops initially wounded the terrorist before attempting to negotiate with him in an effort to convince him to exit the structure.<\/p>\n

The terrorist had refused, and was shot at by one of the soldiers after he had moved closer to his weapon, Army Radio added.<\/p>\n

“The IDF is investigating all the details of the incident, including the manner in which the terrorist was eliminated,” an IDF statement read. “The matter will be investigated and lessons will be learned. At the end of the investigation, the IDF will present the findings transparently.”<\/p>\n

The military also said that any inaccuracies in its initial statement describing the incident were the result of “human error.”<\/p>\n

Separately, Border Police officers operating in the Jerusalem area detained a terrorist brandishing a knife and throwing stones at security forces from the direction of Bethlehem<\/a>, Israel Police confirmed.<\/p>\n

While officers worked according to protocol to arrest the terrorist, the suspect continued to pose a threat, leading officers to fire at his lower body.<\/p>\n

The suspect was then arrested and taken in for further questioning.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, the IDF confirmed it was investigating reports of gunfire near Kiryat Arba, near Hebron<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Troops found a bullet that had struck a building in the area and began conducting searches to determine the circumstances of the incident and locate possible threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF soldiers killed a Hezbollah terrorist in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil on Tuesday as part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[13891,45206,100,423,93,545,6905],"class_list":["post-196026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-dogs","tag-hebron","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-terrorism","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116883904508232022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}