Overview
- IDF officials identified Command Sergeant Major (Res.) Barak Kalfon, 48, as the soldier who died after an explosion during a building search in Jabin, southern Lebanon.
- Two soldiers were moderately wounded and a third was lightly hurt in the same incident, and all were evacuated for treatment.
- The military’s first assessment says the device was planted before the ceasefire and was not triggered in real time, so the blast is not currently classified as a truce violation.
- Investigators are examining how the bomb was set off and why it was not found before troops entered the structure located about three kilometers from the border.
- Kalfon, a resident of Adi and a mechanical engineer at Rafael, is survived by his wife and two daughters, highlighting the personal toll as Israeli units continue operations in southern Lebanon.