Less than three days before the ceasefire Operation Changing Direction 11 was launched with the aim of pushing further into Lebanese territory. 17 Israeli soldiers died in the fighting around the villages of Hadatha, Yatar, at-Tiri, Rashaf and Ayta az-Zut, to the north of Bint Jbeil. The overall commander of the Bint Jbeil region, Muhammad Qanso (Sajid ad-Duwayr), from the village of ad-Duwayr, was killed on 11 August. He was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike outside the village of Beit Yahoun, some five kilometers north of Bint Jbeil and later succumbed to his wounds.