{"id":875418,"date":"2026-06-18T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/875418\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:07:17","slug":"hezbollah-ied-kills-idf-soldier-wounds-seven-others-in-southern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/875418\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah IED kills IDF soldier, wounds seven others, in southern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDF Chief Sergeant First Class (res.) Alexander Filin, aged 29, from Haifa, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon<\/a>, the military announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Filin was a combat soldier in the 36th Division command post.<\/p>\n

He was killed when a team of soldiers from the 36th Division and the Givati Brigade was walking on foot near the Litani River when a Hezbollah<\/a> IED exploded near them, at approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

During the incident, at least seven other soldiers were wounded, the military noted.<\/p>\n

This included an IDF officer, a reserve officer, and an additional reserve soldier who were moderately wounded, the military said.<\/p>\n

\"(ILLUSTRATIVE)(ILLUSTRATIVE) AN IDF soldier aiming out of a window in southern Lebanon. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)<\/p>\n

The officer was identified as the 36th Division’s deputy commander, a Colonel rank, and the reserve officer as the 556th Battalion commander, a Lieutenant-Colonel rank.<\/p>\n

Additionally, a combat NCO and three reserve soldiers, one of whom was a woman, were lightly wounded in the incident, the military added.<\/p>\n

Following the incident, the IDF<\/a> targeted terror infrastructure in the area with artillery fire.<\/p>\n

The IDF is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav issued a statement, expressing deep sorrow at the news of Filin’s death and expressing condolences to the family.<\/p>\n

Double Hezbollah drone attack wounds five IDF soldiers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a separate incident on Wednesday morning<\/a>, two Hezbollah explosive drones wounded five soldiers operating in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The first drone exploded near a tank belonging to the Givati Brigade during the early hours of Tuesday. Shrapnel from the drone wounded four soldiers, who were evacuated by helicopter to the hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterward, another drone exploded, wounding a fifth soldier, who was also evacuated.<\/p>\n

One of these soldiers was severely wounded, while two were moderately wounded and two were lightly wounded.<\/p>\n

The IDF also responded to this incident by targeting terror infrastructure with artillery fire.<\/p>\n

Amir Bohbot contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Chief Sergeant First Class (res.) Alexander Filin, aged 29, from Haifa, was killed in combat in southern…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":875419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[20179,5247,16479,13855,177509,6603,4783,4784,99,13192,83114,50],"class_list":["post-875418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-army","tag-drone","tag-explosive-device","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-givati-brigade","tag-haifa","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-litani-river","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116770089778107504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875418","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=875418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}