IAF strikes targets in Lebanon; more names of dead released
The Jerusalem Post has a quick summary of the goings on in Lebanon last night (which is good since I have to leave for synagogue in a few minutes):The IAF struck a Hizbullah post and two bridges in southern Lebanon overnight Wednesday as the number of targets hit by the Airforce since fighting erupted after the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers, reached into the hundreds.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah shelled the Western Galilee with mortars. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.
Earlier, in a series of air strikes, IAF aircraft bombed Kfar Shuba and Sheba Farms [an area on the border of Israel, Syria and Lebanon, part of which the UN defines as Syrian territory. Hezbullah has used Israel's presence in this area as a pretext for attacks since the IDF
withdrewfled from Lebanon in 2000. CiJ] . The communications infrastructure connecting Beirut to the south of the country was also damaged by IAF strikes.The strikes followed an attack by IAF warplanes and navy gunboats on a Palestinian terrorist base south of Beirut late Wednesday in the closest raid to the Lebanese capital since fighting erupted.
The IDF has also released the names of six of the eight IDF soldiers who were killed in Lebanon yesterday:
Sgt. Nimrod Cohen, 19, from Mitzpe Shalem; Sgt.-Major Eyal Benin, 22, of Be'ersheba and Sgt.-Major Shani Turgeman, 24, of Beit Shean. All the soldiers' families have been notified.
The fourth victim was later identified as Sergeant-Major Wasim Nazel, 27, from the Druze village of Kfar Yanouch. Earlier, Nazel's family was mistakenly informed that he had been kidnapped.
Two of the soldiers who were killed when the tank in which they were riding drove over an explosive device, were identified as Staff-Sergeant Alexei Kashiniervski, 21, from Ness Ziona and Yaniv Bar-on, 19, from Maccabim.
Under heavy fire, IDF forces continued their attempts to reclaim the bodies of the four soldiers who died when their tank was ripped apart by the blast.
Three other soldiers were killed were riding in a Hummer jeep when it was attacked, while two other soldiers in the same jeep were kidnapped.
Days like today are hard. This is a very small country.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:56 AM
1 Comments:
I just feel sick to my stomache that this is necessary, but it is.
Maybe I will one day retire to Israel. I have yet to visit Israel, and I feel like I am half a person because of that. As each day passes, I feel that my heart is in Israel.
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