Overview
- Israeli forces say they captured a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit in Bint Jbeil and killed a second Hezbollah gunman during the same operations.
- The military reported that a Radwan operative fired from a building and that a military working dog from the Oketz unit was shot and killed during the encounter.
- Reserve soldiers from the 679th Brigade disputed the initial IDF account that the Oketz handler fired the fatal shot, saying troops from the 8112th Battalion restrained the suspect and a battalion soldier shot him after he reached for a weapon.
- The IDF has opened an internal examination of the incident and said it will present transparent findings after debriefings are complete.
- The captured Radwan operative has been transferred to Israel for questioning by the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504, a step meant to yield immediate human intelligence on Hezbollah positions and tactics.