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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) acknowledged on May 9 that a soldier was killed in a mortar attack that was carried out by Hezbollah a day earlier.
The deadly mortar attack targeted the al-Malikiyah site on the border with Lebanon, the IDF said in a statement, revealing that the slain soldier was serving in the ranks of the Border Defense Corps’ 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit. Another soldier was lightly hurt in the attack, the IDF added.
Al-Malikiyah was one of 12 sites and settlements which were targeted by Hezbollah on May 8. In separate statements, the group said that the attacks were carried out in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip and as a response to recent Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon.
Late on May 8, the IDF said that its fighter jets struck a building belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in the southern Lebanese town of Jabal Rezlane.
Other airstrikes targeted additional buildings belonging to the group in the towns of Khiam, Odaisseh, Blida, Maroun al-Ras and Ayta al-Shaab, which are also located in southern Lebanon, the IDF added.
After the strikes, Hezbollah mounted two of its fighters. The al-Quds Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, also announced that three of its fighters were killed in southern Lebanon.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in Gaza last October, with Hezbollah and its allies carrying out attacks in support of the Strip.
So far, the clashes have resulted in nine civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 400 people have been killed, including 274 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 70 civilians.
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another dead diaper headed zionazi maggot. onward to the end of this disease and freedom for the semitic people of palestine cured of khazar vermin.
869th combat intelligence collection unit? is each soldier a fkn unit? israel has more units than actual troops at this point
yesterday we already had the “551st brigade’s 6551st battalion” – a battalion is up to 1000 troops, so the 551st brigade would be up to 6.5m troops, or the entire jewish population, incl elderly, women and children. give us a fkn break
pretty sure each unit/battalion/brigade number is retired when that force is discharged. that’s why they always get higher.
another squatter, with dual nationality no doubt, takes it up dee azz