A 22-year-old Israeli commando has been killed combating Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, Israel’s navy mentioned Wednesday.
Capt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, of Israel’s elite Egoz Commando Unit, died in fight in an undisclosed village in southern Lebanon, the Occasions of Israel reported.
His dying marks the primary official fatality amongst Israeli troops for the reason that Jewish state launched its floor invasion this week.
The Occasions of London reported that an unconfirmed variety of Israeli troops had been killed Wednesday after being ambushed near Hezbollah tunnels close to the southern Lebanese village of Odaisseh.
It wasn’t clear if Oster was amongst these casualties.
The navy didn’t supply up some other particulars on his dying.
One survivor of the ambush informed the outlet that everybody in his unit had been injured within the assault — however that they had managed to withdraw.
The developments got here simply hours after Hezbollah mentioned its fighters have been battling Israeli forces within the border city of Maroun el-Ras — marking the primary floor clashes since Israel started pushing into its northern neighbor to hammer the Iran-backed terror group.
The group mentioned it had additionally fired rockets at navy posts inside Israel.
The group’s media chief Mohammad Afif mentioned these battles have been solely “the primary spherical” and that the group had sufficient fighters, weapons and ammunition to push again Israel.
The Israeli navy confirmed it was bolstering its presence by calling up common infantry and armored items to affix its floor operations in Lebanon — a day after Iran attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles.
With Put up wires
