An IDF reservist was killed, and three other soldiers were wounded after being hit by an explosive device in southern Lebanon after the ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect on Friday, the military announces.
The slain soldier is named as Warrant Officer (res.) Barak Kalfon, 48, of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 7056th Battalion, from Adi.
The reservists were scanning a building in the southern Lebanon village of Jebbayn for weapons.
During the scans, a Hezbollah explosive device detonated, killing Kalfon and wounding three other troops, including two moderately and one lightly.
According to an initial IDF probe, the bomb was not remotely detonated.
Further details are under investigation by the military.
The wounded troops were airlifted to a hospital in northern Israel, and their families were notified, the IDF adds.
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