Reservist dies from wounds sustained in battle in southern Lebanon last week
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yishai Netanel Greenbaum, 38, second soldier killed in October 9 battle; IDF said to strike Beirut; rockets fired at north; drone from Iraq hits Golan, no injuries
An IDF reservist succumbed to his wounds after being critically injured during fighting in southern Lebanon last week, the military announced Saturday.
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yishai Netanel Greenbaum, 38, a platoon sergeant in the Alon Brigade’s 5030th Battalion, from Lod, was wounded on October 9 during a battle with Hezbollah operatives. During the same battle, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ronny Ganizate was also killed.
Meanwhile, fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued throughout Sunday, with Lebanese state media saying two Israeli strikes targeted south Beirut after the military warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group.
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, one of the strikes hit a residential building in Haret Hreik.
At around 5:45 a.m., a live feed of Beirut’s skyline featured plane sounds followed by an explosion in the Lebanese capital. The Al-Manar outlet reported that those blasts were Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital.
In the past day, more than 65 Hezbollah operatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the IDF said Sunday morning.
According to the military, the IAF struck dozens of Hezbollah targets as four divisions continue to operate on the ground against the terror group.
Israel’s adversaries continued to fire at Israel on Sunday, with the IAF saying it intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” over the sea in Haifa, an incident that did not set off sirens.
During the night, rocket alarms sounded in Kiryat Shmona and nearby towns, but there were no immediate reports of impacts or injuries.
Moreover, a drone approached Israel from the east before it hit open ground in the Golan Heights overnight, causing sirens to go off in Merom Golan. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq took responsibility for the attack.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.
The attacks on northern Israel over the last year have resulted in the deaths of 29 civilians. In addition, 43 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September. Two soldiers were killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
The IDF estimates that more than 1,500 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Since late September, the war has killed at least 1,454 people in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures that does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
