Israeli commando killed in Lebanon after troopers ambushed by Hezbollah

A 22-year-old Israeli commando has been killed preventing Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, Israel’s army stated Wednesday.

Capt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, of Israel’s elite Egoz Commando Unit, died in fight in an undisclosed village in southern Lebanon, the Times of Israel reported.

His dying marks the primary official fatality amongst Israeli troops because the Jewish state launched its floor invasion this week.

The Times 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 army didn’t provide up every other particulars on his dying.

One survivor of the ambush instructed the outlet that everybody in his unit had been injured within the assault — however they’d managed to withdraw.

The developments got here simply hours after Hezbollah stated 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 stated it had additionally fired rockets at army posts inside Israel.

The group’s media chief Mohammad Afif stated these battles have been solely “the primary spherical” and that the group had sufficient fighters, weapons and ammunition to push again Israel.

The Israeli army confirmed it was bolstering its presence by calling up common infantry and armored models to hitch its floor operations in Lebanon — a day after Iran attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles.

With Put up wires