IDF Get Shown Up Hilariously - And It Took Just One Man!

IDF Get Shown Up Hilariously - And It Took Just One Man!

From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

June 11, 2026 · 20 min

About this episode

The episode discusses an incident where one armed man breached the Israeli border from Lebanon, highlighting the embarrassment for the IDF.

Right, so Israel built itself a buffer zone in Lebanon to tell the north that the danger had been pushed away, and then the Israeli army had to announce that one armed man crossed from Lebanon near Ramim Ridge and breached the border. That's the event with the military varnish scraped off. One man. Israel called him a terrorist, public reporting says it was unclear whether he was even affiliated with Hezbollah, though there are reports he was dressed in a Hezbollah gear so caveats there and the same reporting says this was the first crossing of its kind from Lebanon in this round of fighting. The IDF border gets beaten by one man and that’s the real embarrassment here isn't it? [CLIP] Israel built a security line, sold it as protection, occupied ground in southern Lebanon to make it real, and the thing now sitting in front of it is one armed man getting through the very line that existed to keep exactly that image off Israeli screens. Regional reporting has also alleged that Israeli military media treated the incident as an operational failure, which is something of an understatement if one guy can breach your perimeter – imagine what two could do? And that nearby northern…

People in this episode

Host: Damien Willey

Topics covered

  • Israel
  • Lebanon
  • IDF
  • Hezbollah
  • border security
  • military operations

Keywords

  • IDF
  • Lebanon
  • Hezbollah
  • border breach
  • military failure
  • security line

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Israel Defence Forces, Hezbollah

Places: Lebanon, Ramim Ridge

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