IDF says it captured Hezbollah commando in south Lebanon on Tuesday

A member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force was captured by Israeli troops in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil yesterday, the military announces.

The IDF says troops of the 679th “Yiftah” Armored Brigade had scanned an area of Bint Jbeil where last week a Hezbollah operative opened fire and seriously wounded a reservist with the unit.

One Radwan operative was captured by the troops, while a second was shot dead, according to the military.

Earlier, the military announced that troops had shot dead a Hezbollah operative in Bint Jbeil who had killed a dog in the Oketz canine unit.

During the scans on Tuesday, the Hezbollah operative opened fire from a building on the forces, the military said, killing the Oketz dog.

The dog’s handler, a female combat soldier operating with the reservists, returned fire.

Later, additional troops from the reserve brigade surrounded the gunman and called on him to surrender. After he reached for his weapon, the soldiers shot him dead.

No soldiers were injured in the incident.

Initially, the IDF reported that the Oketz handler had killed the gunman, but later revised that after members of the reserve unit reported that they were the ones to have fired the deadly shots.

The captured operative from the same incident was taken to Israel to be questioned by the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, which specializes in human intelligence, the IDF adds.