IDF announces two soldiers killed in Hezbollah attacks on northern border

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, left, and Sgt. Tomer Keren, 20 who were killed in Hezbollah strikes on the northern border on September 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, left, and Sgt. Tomer Keren, 20 who were killed in Hezbollah strikes on the northern border on September 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and several others were wounded in Hezbollah missile and drone attacks on northern Israel today, the IDF announces.

The slain soldiers are named as:

Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy, 43, a logistics company commander in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade’s 299th Battalion, from Maghar.

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.

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