Israeli fighter jets struck some 30 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Thursday evening, according to the Israel Defense Forces, while two soldiers were killed and several others were wounded in Hezbollah missile and drone attacks on northern Israel earlier in the day.
The IDF named the slain soldiers as Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, a logistics company commander in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade’s 299th Battalion, from Maghar, and Sgt. Tomer Keren, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, from Haifa.
Fwarsy was killed and another soldier was lightly wounded after an explosive-laden drone launched by Hezbollah struck an area outside Ya’ara in the Western Galilee. Ramim Ridge area, near the Israeli border with Lebanon, September 19, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
Israeli fighter jets struck some 30 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Thursday evening, according to the Israel Defense Forces, while two soldiers were killed and several others were wounded in Hezbollah missile and drone attacks on northern Israel earlier in the day.
The IDF named the slain soldiers as Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, a logistics company commander in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade’s 299th Battalion, from Maghar, and Sgt. Tomer Keren, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion, from Haifa.
Fwarsy was killed and another soldier was lightly wounded after an explosive-laden drone launched by Hezbollah struck an area outside Ya’ara in the Western Galilee.
Keren was killed and eight other soldiers were wounded, including one seriously, after two anti-tank missiles launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon struck a position in the Ramim Ridge area on the border in the Galilee Panhandle.
The launchers targeted in the airstrikes, according to the military, included some 150 launch barrels that were primed for an immediate attack on Israel.
