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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on October 27 that four reservists were killed and 14 others were wounded during clashes with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon a day earlier.
The slain troops were all serving in the ranks of the Alon Brigade’s 8207th Battalion. They were identified by the IDF as Captain Rabbi Avraham Yosef Goldberg, Master Sergeant Gilad Elmaliach, Captain Amit Chayut and Major Eliav Amram Abitbol.
Goldberg was the rabbi of the 8207th Battalion, Chayut was a platoon commander, and Abitbol was a deputy company commander.
Among the 14 troops wounded in the same clashes, five were listed in serious condition, according to the IDF, which also alleged three fighters of Hezbollah were killed.
Hezbollah announced 22 operations on October 26. The operations varied from rocket and drone attacks to strikes against tanks and troop gatherings.
In addition, the group’s Military Media released videos showing three recent drone and missile strikes that targeted gatherings of the IDF near the settlements of Yaara and Shomira, as well as in the Kfar Giladi quarry near the Lebanese border.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah launching attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 27 it assassinated the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nassrallah.
The IDF officially announced the launch of a limited ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on September 30.
The confrontation has so far resulted in 31 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 59 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 2,574 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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