DF Announces Names of the Eight Fatalities of Ground Operation in Lebanon
The IDF has confirmed the first casualties of its ground operation in Lebanon, with eight soldiers killed during battles with Hezbollah operatives in the country’s south.
Join the JBN+ WhatsApp GroupThe fallen soldiers are:
- Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in.
- Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli.
- Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham.
- Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair.
- Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh.
- Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Ata.
- Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem.
- Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Nes Tziona.
Six of the Egoz commandos were killed during a gun battle in a village in southern Lebanon. Another officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same clash.
During the extraction of casualties from the building, Hezbollah operatives launched mortar attacks, wounding additional troops. The two Golani reconnaissance unit soldiers were killed in a separate incident, in which another soldier was seriously injured.
May their memories forever be for a blessing.
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