Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ronny Ganizate, 36, killed in ground op; IDF says two Hezbollah commanders responsible for firing on Kiryat Shmona killed in south Lebanon airstrike.
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday morning announced that Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ronny Ganizate, of the Alon Brigade’s 5030th Battalion, was killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as the military continued to battle the Iran-backed terror group on multiple fronts including Syria.
Another reserve soldier from the 5030th Battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident and taken to a hospital, the military added.
Ganizate, 36, of Givat Shmuel, was the 12th Israeli soldier killed in the ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and during operations on the border. Israel launched an offensive on September 23 aimed at removing the terror group from southern Lebanon following a year of near-daily cross-border attacks.
Also Thursday morning, the IDF said that air force jets struck and killed two Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon.
One was named as Ahmad Mustaga Alhaj Ali, responsible for the firing of hundreds of rockets and anti-tank missiles at the border city of Kiryat Shmona. The other was Muhammad Ali Hamdan, commander of Hezbollah’s anti-tank corps in Meiss Ej Jabal, across the border from Kiryat Shmona, who the IDF said was also behind many attacks on northern communities.