The IDF spokesperson on Motzaei Shabbos announced the names of two IDF soldiers who were killed in battles with Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon on Friday and Shabbos
Staff Sgt. Yoav Klein, H’yd, 21, from Hertziliya, was identified as one of the four soldiers killed in a Hezbollah attack on an IDF tank early Friday morning.
Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, H’YD, 21, from Kerem Maharal, a moshav in northern Israel, was killed overnight Friday in a rocket and drone attack in southern Lebanon. Another 13 soldiers were killed in the same incident.
Two of the soldiers were seriously injured, one was moderately injured, and 10 were lightly injured.
Heavy exchanges of fire between IDF forces and Hezbollah terrorists took place throughout Shabbos. organization. Hezbollah claimed that 111 of its terrorists were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the weekend.
(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)