Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were lightly wounded by a Hezbollah suicide drone in Southern Lebanon on Monday, the military confirmed to JNS.
An Israeli Air Force helicopter that was sent to rescue the injured “landed in the extraction area with no ability to take off due to a technical error,” the IDF said in a separate statement.

A second IAF helicopter was dispatched and successfully evacuated the injured soldiers for treatment in Israel, according to the army.

IAF soldiers subsequently repaired the first helicopter and it safely departed, it said, adding that the chopper “was not damaged by Hezbollah’s fire.”