Amid the crisis in the Middle-East, eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday.
This comes during fighting in south Lebanon.
Isreal has been attacking Hezbollah which has ties with Lebanon. Hezbollah has been fighting Israel in support of Hamas.
In a post on its X handle on Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces said, “Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, Captain Harel Etinger, Captain Itai Ariel Giat, Sergeant First Class Noam Barzilay, Sergeant First Class Or Mantzur, Sergeant First Class Nazaar Itkin, Staff Sergeant Almken Terefe and Staff Sergeant Ido Broyer, all fell during combat against Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon.
“May their memories forever be a blessing.”
SaharaReporters earlier reported that in the heat of the crisis Israeli authorities said they have declared United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres persona non grata in Israel and banned him from entering the country.
This declaration comes in response to Guterres’ silence regarding Iran’s recent attack on Israel.
Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, in a tweet via his official X handle on Wednesday, said, “Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s heinous attack on Israel, as almost every country in the world has done, does not deserve to step foot on Israeli soil.”
He criticised Guterres for failing to denounce the “massacre and sexual atrocities committed by Hamas murderers on October 7,” and for not leading efforts to declare Hamas a terrorist organization.
Katz further condemned the UN leader, asserting, “A Secretary-General who gives backing to terrorists, rapists, and murderers from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and now Iran—the mothership of global terror—will be remembered as a stain on the history of the UN.” (SaharaReporters)
