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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Monday, July 3, 2023
IDF soldier wounded in Jenin returns to field after being treated
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent.
First Sgt. "Ayin," wounded by a grenade during an operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, is seen returning to his unit after being treated, July 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
An Israeli soldier lightly wounded this morning by grenade shrapnel during a major operation in the West Bank city of Jenin has returned to the field after being released from a hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces says First Sgt. “Ayin,” from the elite Duvdevan unit — who can only be identified by his rank and initial of his first name in Hebrew — “insisted” on returning to his unit after being treated.
He was hit by shrapnel from a grenade thrown by other IDF troops.
The IDF says he returned to the northern West Bank area a short while ago to continue the efforts to “foil terror in the Jenin refugee camp.”
