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Thursday, November 7, 2024
IDF announces soldier killed following Hezbollah rocket barrage on Wednesday
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Sgt. Ariel Sosnov Sasonov (Israel Defense Forces)
A soldier was killed in a Hezbollah rocket barrage on northern Israel yesterday, the IDF announces.
He is named as Sgt. Ariel Sosnov Sasonov, 20, of the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Sasonov was killed by an impact amid a barrage of some 50 rockets on the border community of Avivim.
Three other soldiers were lightly hurt in the attack.
Separately, the army says that an infantryman in the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion was seriously wounded yesterday during battles in northern Gaza, and was taken to a hospital.
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