St.-Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Valeri Chefonov was killed in combat in the North, the IDF announced on Friday.
Chefonov, 33, from Netanya, served in the 9308 Battalion, 228th Alon Brigade.He was buried on Friday at the military cemetery in Netanya.
Chernov critically wounded after drone attack
On Thursday, three drones infiltrated Israeli territory and exploded at the Kabri intersection near Nahariya. The Israel Air Force did not intercept the drones and one of them hit a populated area.
The explosion wounded Chefonov, who was in critical condition and was evacuated by the Magen David Adom team to the hospital. Simultaneously, IDF artillery fired at targets in Southern Lebanon.The director of the emergency department to which Chefonov was brought, Dr. Khaled Atallah, said, “The wounded [individual] was brought with shrapnel wounds on his upper body, while advanced resuscitation operations began in the field. Upon his arrival, he was admitted to the trauma unit, where we continued the resuscitation operations, and later we unfortunately had to pronounce him dead.”