IDF Chief Sergeant First Class (res.) Alexander Filin, aged 29, from Haifa, was killed in combat in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Filin was a combat soldier in the 36th Division command post.<\/p>\n
He was killed when a team of soldiers from the 36th Division and the Givati Brigade was walking on foot near the Litani River when an IED exploded near them.<\/p>\n
During the incident, at least seven other soldiers were wounded, the military noted.<\/p>\n
This included an IDF officer, a reserve officer, and an additional reserve soldier who were moderately wounded, the military said.<\/p>\n
The officer was identified as the 36th Division’s deputy commander, a Colonel rank, and the reserve officer as the 556th Battalion commander, a Lieutenant-Colonel rank.<\/p>\n
Additionally, a combat NCO and three reserve soldiers, one of whom was a woman, were lightly wounded in the incident, the military added.<\/p>\n
The IDF is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav issued a statement, expressing deep sorrow at the news of Filin’s death and expressing condolences to the family.<\/p>\n
Shortly beforehand, in a separate incident, five other soldiers were wounded when two explosive drones hit a unit operating in southern Lebanon, one after the other.<\/p>\n
One of these soldiers was severely wounded, while the others were moderately and lightly wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Chief Sergeant First Class (res.) Alexander Filin, aged 29, from Haifa, was killed in combat in southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4754,6209,42,86,1031,46,88,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-498511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-army","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}