23 February 1999
✸Jabbour ambush: paratroop commander Eitan Balhasan killed
South Lebanon#Israel–Lebanon
AttackerHezbollah➜TargetIsrael / IDF
On 23 February 1999 a force of elite Israeli paratroopers fell into an Islamic Resistance ambush near Jabbour in the West Bekaa; by Israel's admission three officers were killed, among them the unit commander Lieutenant Colonel Eitan Balhasan, and five wounded.