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Soldier killed in Lebanon, upping IDF toll to 799

Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Omer Moshe Gaeldor was reportedly slain when his unit was attacked by a Hezbollah suicide drone.

Omer Moshe Gaeldor
Slain Israel Defense Forces reservist Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Omer Moshe Gaeldor. Credit: IDF.

An Israel Defense Forces reservist was killed in action battling Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the military announced on Tuesday afternoon.

Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Omer Moshe Gaeldor, 30, from Jerusalem, served in Lebanon as a member of the 5111th operational support unit of the IDF’s Golani Brigade, according to the statement.

According to Israel’s Ynet news outlet, Gaeldor was killed when his unit was attacked by a Hezbollah suicide drone. Three additional soldiers were seriously wounded in the incident, the IDF confirmed.

On Sunday, the IDF announced that three IDF soldiers were killed in Gaza. Capt. Yogev Pazy, 22, from Giv’ot Bar, and Staff Sgt. Noam Eitan, 21, from Hadera, were killed in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the IDF. They were members of the Nachshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, where Pazy served as a platoon commander, the statement noted.

Earlier on Sunday, the army announced that IDF Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Idan Kenan, 21, also of the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, was killed by sniper fire in Beit Lahiya.

The death toll among Israeli troops on all fronts since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre currently stands at 799, according to official military figures.

Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded there in May.

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