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Friday, August 29, 2025
IDF ‘expresses regret’ after Lebanon says two soldiers killed in Israeli drone explosion
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The IDF expresses regret for an incident yesterday in which an Israeli drone that had crashed in southern Lebanon exploded, killing and wounding several members of the Lebanese Armed Forces.
In a statement, the military says the IDF has opened a probe into the incident, which it attributes to a “technical malfunction.”
It acknowledges that following the explosion, “the IDF received reports that a number of Lebanese army soldiers were harmed.”
“The possibility that the incident was caused by an IDF weapon explosion is being examined,” the military says, adding that it “regrets the harm to Lebanese army soldiers.”
According to the military, the drone had been intended to target a Hezbollah site that the terror group was rebuilding “in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and not against the Lebanese army soldiers.”
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee issues a similar statement in Arabic on X.
The Lebanese military has said that two people were killed in the blast, including an officer, and two others were injured.
????هاجم جيش الدفاع أمس آلية هندسية في منطقة الناقورة في جنوب لبنان كانت تهم بإعادة اعمار بنى تحتية عسكرية لحزب الله في المنطقة.
????خلال الغارة وقع خلل فني اسفر عن عدم انفجار الذخيرة وسقوطها على الأرض حيث وردت فيما بعد تقارير عن اصابة عدد من عناصر #الجيش_اللبناني. يجرى فحص امكانية… pic.twitter.com/LsQ3wBrmC7
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 29, 2025
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