IDF airs footage of drone strike on Hezbollah fighters who killed a soldier last week

Hezbollah operatives who killed a paratrooper officer last week in southern Lebanon were eliminated in an airstrike, the IDF says, releasing footage of the incident without specifying when the airstrike took place.

Cpt. Ben Zion Falach, 21, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, was killed during an exchange of fire with Hezbollah gunmen in a village in southern Lebanon on October 2.

The military says that the Hezbollah operatives were spotted by the paratroopers using a small drone, and they directed the Israeli Air Force to carry out a drone strike against them. Another operative was killed in an exchange of fire in a building, the IDF adds.

Separately, the IDF says the paratroopers have located hundreds of weapons, including in a 7-meter-deep bunker in a village where they are operating.