✸Operation "Truthful Promise"

On the morning of 12 July 2006 the Islamic Resistance attacked an Israeli patrol at the border near Aita al-Shaab, captured the two soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and killed three; as a Merkava tank and Humvees tried to advance into South Lebanon, the resistance fighters detonated a bomb estimated at 200 kilograms, killing four more, and the toll then rose to eight dead.