{"id":514997,"date":"2026-06-28T11:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514997\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:26:12","slug":"captain-david-hazutt-killed-in-combat-in-southern-lebanon-idf-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/514997\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain David Hazutt killed in combat in southern Lebanon, IDF announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain David Hazutt, aged 21, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/jerusalem-report\/article-887511\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashkelon<\/a>, was killed in southern Lebanon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-900701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a> announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hazutt was a platoon commander in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-899149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golani Brigade<\/a>&#8216;s 12th Battalion.<\/p>\n<p>The platoon was searching for a terror suspect near Deit Siryan in southern Lebanon when the soldiers encountered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-900698\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah<\/a> terrorist at approximately 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The terrorist killed Hazutt and wounded another soldier, who was evacuated for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The soldiers then launched an operation to search for the terrorist responsible, and attacked terror targets in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">IDF soldiers are still conducting searches as of approximately 12:30 p.m. on Sunday in an effort to locate and kill the terrorist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Galam issued a statement eulogizing Hazutt on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The city of Ashkelon bows its head and grieves over his loss,&#8221; Galam said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;David left behind a mother and sister and a heartbroken family,&#8221; he added. Hazutt&#8217;s father passed away several years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain David Hazutt, aged 21, from Ashkelon, was killed in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Sunday. Hazutt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82871,6209,165067,42,86,1031,88,43,2896,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-514997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ashkelon","tag-fallen-soldiers","tag-golani-brigade","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-lebanon","tag-news","tag-terrorist","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514997","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=514997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}