Israel Defense Force paratroopers killed six guerrillas of the extremist pro-Iran Hezbollah on Friday, during a search and destroy mission north of the southern Lebanon security zone.
One Israeli soldier was slightly wounded.
“It wasn’t the routine mop-up operation,” said Maj. Gen. Yossi Peled, commander of the northern sector. “The soldiers encountered tough opposition.”
The mission was carried out in difficult terrain and accomplished in accordance with the highest standards of the IDF, Peled said.
Sources in Lebanon said the clash occurred less than three miles from the Syrian army’s forward positions in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon.
An IDF spokesman said the paratroopers “initiated action aimed at preventing the organization and activity of terrorists in the vicinity of Maidoun.”
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