Israeli Army Investigates Tank Blast in Southern Lebanon That Killed Four Soldiers
Translated & summarized from N12 by baba
The IDF is investigating a tank explosion in southern Lebanon that killed four soldiers near Tebnine. The main suspicion is that the tank was hit from outside, though an internal ammunition malfunction has not been ruled out. In a later incident, five more soldiers were wounded by a drone.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- IDF is probing whether a hit or malfunction caused the tank blast.
- Four soldiers were killed shortly after midnight in Tebnine, southern Lebanon.
- The tank went out to rescue a stuck engineering vehicle.
- Five more soldiers were wounded in a later drone attack.
- Among the dead was Battalion 52 commander Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Shimhon.
The IDF is still investigating what caused a tank to explode overnight in southern Lebanon, killing four soldiers. The leading theory is that something penetrated the tank, possibly an anti-tank missile or another projectile, but investigators are also considering a malfunction in which ammunition detonated inside the tank.
The deadly incident happened shortly after midnight in the village of Tebnine, when a force from Battalion 52 went out to rescue a stuck engineering vehicle. All four soldiers in the tank were killed. In a separate incident shortly afterward, five more soldiers were wounded by a drone, including one seriously.
Among the dead was Lt. Col. Dor Gedalia Ben Shimhon, 32, the commander of Battalion 52 in the 401st Brigade, from Kibbutz Beit Hashita. He left behind a wife and two daughters. The names of the other fallen soldiers have not yet been cleared for publication.
Ben Shimhon came from a family of fighters. He and four of his brothers enlisted in the 401st Brigade, and another brother joined Golani Brigade. His widow serves as a combat officer in the IDF Intelligence and Border Corps. He took command of Battalion 52 in April, about a week after the previous commander was severely wounded in fighting. People who knew him in the military said, “Ben Shimhon took on command in a difficult moment,” and that he led the battalion “with determination and responsibility throughout the past two months of fighting.”
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