Staff Sergeant Nave Habshoosh was named as the fourth soldier killed after Hezbollah struck a tank in southern Lebanon, the IDF announced on Sunday morning.
Habshoosh, 20, from Geva Binyamin, served in the 52nd Battalion in the 401st Brigade.
The tank, belonging to 52nd Battalion forces under the Givati Brigade, was operating in the area of the village of Tebnit at the time of the attack.
Lt.-Col. Dor Gedalia Ben-Simhon, 32, St.- Sgt. Yoav Klein, 21, and St.-Sgt. Liav Kababia, 20, also of the 52nd Battalion, were killed in the same incident.
Ben-Simhon had taken over command of the 52nd Battalion from Lt. Col. “Y.” on April 20 after the latter was seriously wounded in southern Lebanon.
One soldier killed, 13 wounded in separate Hezbollah attack
In a separate incident overnight on Friday, Hezbollah attacked IDF positions in the Lebanon buffer zone.
Sgt. First Class Nir Ben Ari, 21, from the Maglan Unit, Commando Brigade, is believed to be the only soldier killed in these attacks, though 13 other soldiers were wounded.
In the overnight attacks, Hezbollah launched over 50 projectiles at soldiers in a “blatant ceasefire violation,” the IDF said.
The military responded to the attacks with strikes on several Hezbollah terrorists and terror infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon, the military added, including rocket launch positions, weapons storage facilities, and command centers.
Later on Saturday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz told the IDF to hold fire until further notice.
