The funeral of Capt. David Hazut, 21, a Golani platoon commander killed in combat in southern Lebanon, will be held today at 17:00 at the military section of the Givat Zion cemetery, according to reports.
The funeral of Capt. David Hazut, killed in combat in southern Lebanon, is set for Sunday at 17:00 Jerusalem time at the military section of the Givat Zion cemetery in Ashkelon. The IDF cleared his name for publication earlier Sunday at 12:21 Jerusalem, confirming he was a 21-year-old platoon commander from Ashkelon in the Golani Brigade's 12th Battalion who fell in a clash with a Hezbollah operative in the Deir Siran area.
The earliest reports in this thread (12:21 Jerusalem Sunday) described an overnight clash near Deir Siryan around 02:00, in which a Golani soldier was killed and another wounded; the IDF initially responded with artillery fire. Over the next hour, the IDF officially named the fallen as Capt. David Hazut, and Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam eulogized him. An initial IDF probe cleared the troops of wrongdoing, stating the Hezbollah operative ambushed the force from a stairwell and fled; the IDF struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the village in response. Searches for the operative continued.
As The Zioneer has reported, Hazut's death is the latest in a series of IDF fatalities in southern Lebanon over the past week, including five soldiers killed in a tank incident involving the 52nd Battalion and a Maglan fighter killed in a separate Saturday incident. Hazut's death occurred in a separate clash, not linked to those prior events.
It remains unclear whether the Hezbollah operative involved in the clash has been located or eliminated. The IDF has not issued an update on the search or on the condition of the lightly wounded soldier.
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