Israeli Deputy Commander of Battalion 9308 Killed in Battle in South Lebanon.
As per report of Al Jazeera TV, the deputy commander was killed in a confrontation in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s 24 media conveyed that, as per Israeli media reports, 16 soldiers from their ranks were taken to Safed Hospital following clashes along the Lebanese border Tuesday.
The number of Israeli soldiers killed is raising daily. On 17 October it was reported that five Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade were killed in battles in Southern Lebanon.
According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency, the latest officer to have dies came from Dulyu city and had been engaged in military operations in the Middle East for an extended period.
This incident marks the second instance this week of a senior Israeli military official being killed in Gaza and Lebanon.
Up till now six Merkava tanks have been destroyed in Lebanon.
Other Hebrew media sources report that 22 Israeli soldiers were injured in the past 24 hours, 20 of these being in the northern front on the border between Israel and Lebanon while two in Gaza.