{"id":843635,"date":"2026-06-04T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843635\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:50:13","slug":"idf-northern-chief-rafi-milo-narrowly-escaped-hezbollah-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/843635\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF northern chief Rafi Milo narrowly escaped Hezbollah drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IDF on Thursday morning disclosed that recently the personal command vehicle of the IDF<\/a> Northern Command Chief Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo was struck by a Hezbollah drone while he was visiting sub-commanders in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Milo was unharmed, but only because he happened to have left the vehicle to meet with other commanders shortly prior to the attack.<\/p>\n

Although the incident was only revealed on Thursday, it apparently occurred sometime in the last couple of weeks, such that it will not impact the latest ceasefire announcement.<\/p>\n

Had Milo been harmed, let alone killed, it would have been viewed as a strategic victory for Hezbollah, since he would have been the highest-ranked Israeli commander killed during the war.<\/p>\n

Until now, the highest-ranked killed IDF<\/a> commanders have been colonels, with only a few killed, and the highest-ranked wounded commander was a brigadier general.<\/p>\n

The IDF’s head of the northern command is often viewed as potentially in line to be a future IDF chief, with only the IDF deputy chief being viewed as clearly ranked above him.<\/p>\n

There is an expectation that safety regulations for top IDF and Israeli political officials visiting the Lebanon front will become stricter following the incident.<\/p>\n

The IDF has struggled now for months to combat the new Hezbollah<\/a> manually piloted, non-GPS, FPV drones<\/a>, and while some progress has been made to defend against them, no complete answer is expected at least for some additional months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The IDF on Thursday morning disclosed that recently the personal command vehicle of the IDF Northern Command Chief…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":843636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[5247,127189,4783,13192,50,17354,103],"class_list":["post-843635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-drone","tag-drone-attack","tag-hezbollah","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-north","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116691457099517023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}