Only one of the soldiers has been identified at this hour First Sergeant Daniel Siron, age 20 of Haifa. The name of the second soldiers has not yet been released for publication.
An IDF officer and a soldier were wounded by an anti-tank missile, one moderately and the other with light injuries, while searching for terrorists and weapons caches in the south Lebanese village of al-Tayibeh. They were evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
Golani Brigade fighters were attacked while operating in Markhava, a village in southern Lebanon. The IDF spokesperson unit said ground forces killed at least seven terrorists during fierce fighting in the village. During the operation soldiers discovered a weapons cache and destroyed a Hizbullah getaway car. Four more terrorists were eliminated by IDF forces in the village of Shama.
IAF warplanes also struck a parking lot for trucks and buses near the village of Qa’a at the northeastern tip of the Beka’a Valley, near the Lebanese border with Syria. Some 25 Lebanese civilians were killed and wounded in the strike, according to security sources quoted by the Ynet news service. The IAF attack further blocked the ability of terrorists to transfer weapons from Syria into Lebanon.
An IDF officer and a soldier were wounded by an anti-tank missile, one moderately and the other with light injuries, while searching for terrorists and weapons caches in the south Lebanese village of al-Tayibeh. They were evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
Golani Brigade fighters were attacked while operating in Markhava, a village in southern Lebanon. The IDF spokesperson unit said ground forces killed at least seven terrorists during fierce fighting in the village. During the operation soldiers discovered a weapons cache and destroyed a Hizbullah getaway car. Four more terrorists were eliminated by IDF forces in the village of Shama.
IAF warplanes also struck a parking lot for trucks and buses near the village of Qa’a at the northeastern tip of the Beka’a Valley, near the Lebanese border with Syria. Some 25 Lebanese civilians were killed and wounded in the strike, according to security sources quoted by the Ynet news service. The IAF attack further blocked the ability of terrorists to transfer weapons from Syria into Lebanon.