Reports are emerging that Hezbollah has killed at least eight, and perhaps more, Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon today.
Israel confirmed the deaths of eight soldiers from the Egoz commandos who were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Lebanon village.
They are named as:
Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, was killed in a village during clashes with Hezbollah fighters, the IDF said.
Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, a 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
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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 Atta.
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
Another officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
The two soldiers of the Golani recon unit were killed in a separate incident, in which another soldier was seriously wounded.
In a third incident, a combat medic with the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion was seriously wounded.
Earlier, Hezbollah said fierce armed clashes between the “Lebanese resistance” and the IDF were continuing as they attempted to breach the southern border.
They said on Wednesday afternoon while an “Israeli enemy force” was trying to encircle the town of Yaroun from the direction of the forest, Hezbollah fighters surprised them by detonating a special explosive device, leaving all members of the force either dead or wounded.
And later on they destroyed three Merkava tanks with guided missiles as Israeli soldiers advanced towards the town of Maroun Al-Ras.
