Israeli Soldiers Continue to Fall in Lebanon

CROSSFIREARABIA – Lebanon is no walk-in-the-park for Israeli soldiers. They are being killed and maimed by Hezbollah soldiers at unimaginable rates, which shows there is facing stiff clashes and resistance there.

Saturday as confirmed by Hebrew sources, an Israeli officer and a soldier were killed following clashes with Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon. Other sources say at least four Israeli soldiers were also wounded.  

Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the officer, a captain from the Egoz unit, died from wounds he received as a result of an explosive-laden drone that detonated in the south of the country which the Israel army is attempting to occupy.

Away from this, the Israeli army also announced, Saturday that one of its soldiers from the prestigious Givati Brigade also died during clashes in south Lebanon.

After military censorship the army released details of the soldier who was killed saying he  was a sergeant, named Ohad Yaari and was 21 years old. And he may have died through an “accidental discharge of his weapon”. It said the incident was being investigated.

Hezbollah forces are continuing to attack Israeli military sites and vehicles in southern Lebanon and northern Israel. This is response to Israel’s violation of the ceasefire agreement that has been in effect since April 17 and extended until the beginning of July.

Since last 2 March around 29 Israeli officers and soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon, including 16 since 17 April. What is noticeable as well, is that during this war more than 1245 Israeli soldiers and rank officers were wounded with 72 being in critical condition, 139 with moderate injuries as a result of direct fighting with Hezbollah forces.

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Israeli Settlers Carry Out 1,659 Attacks in May

The head of the Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, Minister Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, stated that Israeli forces and colonists  carried out a total of 1,659 attacks during May, continuing the systematic terrorism practiced by the occupying power against the Palestinian people, their land, and their property.

In the Commission’s monthly report issued on Saturday, Sha’ban said that the occupation army carried out 1,108 attacks, while colonists carried out 551.

He affirmed that the attacks were concentrated primarily in the Hebron and Ramallah governorates, with 319 attacks each, followed by Nablus with 301 attacks and Bethlehem with 212.

Sha’ban highlighted that the attacks included direct physical violence, uprooting trees, burning fields, preventing farmers from accessing their lands, confiscating property, and demolishing homes and agricultural structures.

He pointed out that these practices coincide with the closure of large areas of Palestinian land under the pretext of security, while providing protection and support to colonists to enable them to expand within those areas. WAFA

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Israel Soldiers Shoot, Kill Baby in Hebron

A 7-month-old Palestinian infant was killed Friday and his parents wounded when the Israeli army shot at the family’s car in the Tel Rumeida area in the southern occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

It said the Israeli army killed Sam Abu Haikal and that his father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, lived with his wife and son in Bethlehem.

The shooting took place while Abu Haikal was on his way to his mother’s house in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in central Hebron.

Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition, wounding the father in his hand. His wife was also wounded by the same bullet, which pierced the jaw of their infant son. All three were taken to the hospital.

The occupied West Bank has witnessed escalating Israeli military raids, arrests and settlement expansion since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023 according to Anadolu.

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Aid Flotilla: Activists Subjected to Torture

Italians who took part in a humanitarian aid flotilla for Gaza said Wednesday that when the Israeli army attacked them last month in the Mediterranean in violation of international law, they abducted some activists, and subjected them to ill-treatment amounting to torture.

“This time, the Israeli army responded to the flotilla much more violently” than in past humanitarian efforts, Antonio La Piccirella, who took part in the Global Sumud Flotilla’s 2026 Spring Mission, told a press conference in Rome.

“There were two attacks, one of them off the coast of Europe. In the attack between Italy and Greece, they abducted two of our members, further violating international law. The other intervention was carried out in broad daylight and lasted for one-and-a-half days.”

La Piccirella said Israel last year allocated $180 million to anti-flotilla propaganda in order to fight them and build up a sense of “impunity,” and that this year they spent far more, some $760 million.

This propaganda was carried out through disinformation and aimed to create communities sympathetic to Israel in Europe and the US, he said.

Emphasizing that they would continue to take action in the future, La Piccirella said: “We are concerned with actions against the naval blockade of Palestine (and promoting) humanitarian aid, and international law.

“The international situation is constantly changing, and so is our strategy. So we repeat that we will definitely continue to do something,” he said.

Forced to kneel and be humiliated

Italian journalist Alessandro Mantovani, who also took part in the spring mission, stressed that after being detained he was not even allowed to say that he was a journalist.

“From the very beginning, we were beaten and forced into humiliating positions. When we were taken to their military ships, we were pushed down face-first onto the deck, tied up, then forced to kneel and kept in the same extremely uncomfortable position for hours. When we were brought to the ship that we all called the prison ship, we were systematically beaten,” he said.

The face-down positions he described fit video footage posted online by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which the activists were forced to kneel and were subjected to abusive language, mistreatment which drew fierce criticism from numerous countries.

Mantovani said he still has problems with his jaw because of the blows he received and that his jaw may have been dislocated.

The Italian journalist said the Israeli army treated Turkish activists especially badly.

“I think I can say that the Turks were treated even worse than the others; torture also has a geopolitical dimension,” he said.

Turkish leaders have been at the international forefront of condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza as well as the famine and near-starvation of its populace due to a long-standing blockade of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies. The blockade was due to be relaxed in recent months, but many rights groups and international observers say the situation has improved little if at all.

Mantovani pointed out that the Global Sumud Flotilla was detained at night during its first voyage last year, while during this latest voyage it was detained in broad daylight.

He stressed that the Israeli army was not ashamed to show that it attacked unarmed people with weapons. Anadolu

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9 Killed, Dozens Injured in Israeli Strikes on Flats in Gaza

Nine Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, including women and children, in simultaneous Israeli airstrikes early Thursday targeting four residential apartments across Gaza City, according to medical sources.

The latest strikes come as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement in force in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 10, 2025.

Nine bodies and dozens of wounded were received at Al-Shifa Hospital, an Anadolu correspondent at the scene reported citing medical sources.

Some of the bodies arrived dismembered, while others were severely burned, the sources added.

Israel’s two-year genocide in Gaza since October 2023 has killed nearly 73,000 Palestinians and injured more than 173,000, most of them women and children, according to Palestinian figures.

Despite a ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, the Israeli army has killed 936 Palestinians and injured 2,903 in near-daily attacks, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

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