A Golani Brigade soldier was killed and another wounded around 02:00 this morning when a Hezbollah operative fired at their force during an operational activity in the Deir Siryan area of southern Lebanon, the IDF says. The operative fled; Israeli troops responded with artillery fire on the area.
A soldier from the Golani Brigade was killed and another wounded in an overnight encounter with a Hezbollah operative near the village of Deir Siryan in southern Lebanon, according to details released by the IDF. The incident occurred around 02:00 Sunday when an operative opened fire on an Israeli force operating in the area. The soldiers returned fire, but the gunman fled the scene and was not eliminated. The IDF then struck the area with artillery.
As The Zioneer first reported earlier this morning, Capt. David Hazutt, 21, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade's 12th Battalion, was killed in an earlier encounter in the same village. The current report describes a separate engagement in the same area, occurring after Hazutt's death and during the ongoing search operation. The military has not yet named the fallen soldier in this latest incident.
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