{"id":94710,"date":"2026-05-02T20:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94710\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:28:09","slug":"hezbollah-drone-strikes-israeli-tank-in-south-lebanon-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94710\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah Drone Strikes Israeli Tank in South Lebanon Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hezbollah released footage on May 2 showing the moment an attack drone struck an Israeli Merkava tank in the south Lebanon town of Qantara, causing it to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hezbollah said the strike was carried out on April 27. Storyful has not independently verified the date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On April 28, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out <a data-ylk=\"slk:large-scale demolitions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/341394\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">large-scale demolitions<\/a> in Qantara, destroying what they alleged were underground tunnels used by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That day, Hezbollah released a <a data-ylk=\"slk:video showing a drone strike;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/341396\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">video showing a drone strike<\/a> on an Israeli armored personnel vehicle in Qantara, saying the attack had been carried out on April 24. Credit: Hezbollah via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezbollah released footage on May 2 showing the moment an attack drone struck an Israeli Merkava tank in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[100,1663,93,33375,33374,33373],"class_list":{"0":"post-94710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-hezbollah","9":"tag-israel-defense-forces","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-merkava-tank","12":"tag-qantara","13":"tag-underground-tunnels"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116506873363767779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710","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=94710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}