The IDF announces the deaths of seven more soldiers who were killed during fighting in southern Lebanon today, APA reports citing Times of Israel.
They are named as:
- 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
- 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
The Egoz commandos were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Lebanon village, along with Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, whose death was announced earlier.