During the ambush, Hezbollah reportedly attacked the IDF soldiers with anti-tank missiles and forces on the ground.
Captain Oster, who was 22 years old and from Modi'in, was a soldier in the Egoz Unit.
Division 98 was responsible for breaking the back of Hamas in Khan Yunis, its strongest fighting brigade, from December 2023 to March 2024.
IDF bases in the South failed a training drill just 72 hours before the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, according to the parents of Roni Eshel.
In the same incident where Toaff was killed, two other fighters from the battalion and paramedic Staff Sergeant Agam Naim also lost their lives.
Agam Naim was an IDF soldier, she fell in Rafah in a building explosion along with three other IDF soldiers.
Sinwar commends Houthi missile attack on Israel • Two rocket hits in Metula area • Netanyahu asserts military operation against Hezbollah if diplomacy fails
Israel's leading organization for terror victims and their families flew 180 wounded IDF soldiers and bereaved young adults to Ed Sheeran's Cyprus concert along with mentalist Lior Suchard.
Earlier, the Israel Air Force targeted Hezbollah military infrastructure and a rocket launcher in the area of Qabrikha in southern Lebanon.
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