It was cleared for publication on Monday afternoon that Shalom Aboudi, an Israeli citizen, was killed by an antitank missile in the town of Dovev in the Upper Galilee on Sunday.
Aboudi, 56, was married to Orli and a father of two.
A notice from the Hezbollah terror group read: "In support of the Palestinian nation in the Gaza Strip and the resistance, Islamic resistance fighters at 12:25 conducted a launch towards a logistical force of the Occupation's army. The force intended to set up broadcast posts and means of espionage and warning near Dovev."
Earlier on Monday, Israel Electric Corporation CEO Meir Spiegler told Keshet 12 that the IEC employees who were hit by anti-tank fire on Sunday had to wait in the field for hours under fire from Lebanon and IDF retaliatory fire before they were evacuated.
"Eight of the nine workers were evacuated and were taken for treatment at a hospital. They were all released. We have an additional employee who we have no official information about," Speigler recounted. "The employees were on the scene repairing damage to an electric pole, and that's part of their daily routine. They were supposed to go up in a cherry picker, and then they began to take fire - including anti-tank missiles - and they were at the scene when the IDF returned fire as well. They were protected by all the required means when the incident began. They were out in the field for over five hours without being able to be evacuated, under fire from both sides. They were only evacuated after dark, and the additional employee was rescued at around midnight."
"We know that everything is coordinated with the security forces, and we don't know what they're doing to protect our employees, and we trust them. The amount of time in which the employees were in the field, which is Israeli territory near Dovev, and were unable to be evacuated, needs to be checked," he noted.