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Israeli soldiers after a patrol along the Israeli-Lebanese border in northern Israel Tuesday. (AP)
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| By Israel Insider staff and partners August 9, 2006 |
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Fifteen Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting Wednesday, the highest one-day total in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. 38 soldiers were wounded. During an IDF operation in the village of Rajmin, reserve forces killed four Hizbullah terrorists. In a single incident, 9 reservists were killed when an anti-tank rocket hit a house they were in the village of Dbil in the western sector of south Lebanon.
Throughout the day, IDF and Hizbullah forces engaged in heavy clashes in the Lebanese village of Ayta al-Shaab, in the western sector of southern Lebanon on Wednesday, involving anti-tank missiles, as well as light weapons.
The IDF confirmed there were a number of casualties in Ayta al-Shaab.
During an IDF operation in the village of Rajmin, reserve forces killed nine Hizbullah terrorists and wounded two.
Earlier, a Golani soldier was moderately wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the Hizbullah in Bint Jbail.
The IAF targeted Hizbullah headquarters in the city, killing 10 guerrillas.
Meanwhile, a top Hizbullah official, Hassan A-Sader, and four family members were killed by an IAF airstrike on Wednesday morning in the Lebanese city of Masjara.
A reservist force operating in the village of Ayta al-Shaab on Wednesday killed two Hizbullah gunmen as well.
Over the course of Tuesday night, the IAF carried out 120 airstrikes on Lebanese targets.
Close to 80 buildings and headquarters of the Hizbullah were attacked. Also targeted were four rocket launchers, 25 roads, several vehicles and seven bridges, mostly along the Litani river.
On Tuesday night, two IDF soldiers were killed in an operation in the south Lebanese village of Bint Jbail, the IDF announced early Wednesday.
The two, both of whom belonged to a force from the Paratroopers Brigade that was engaged in fierce firefights in the village, were identified as St.-Sgt. Oren Lifshitz, 21, of Gazit and St.-Sgt. Moran Cohen, 21, of Ashdot Ya'akov.
One of the soldiers was seriously wounded when the force came under heavy fire from a group of Hizbullah guerrillas. The second soldier was hit during the evacuation of the first when Hizbullah forces fired at the rescue squad.
A third soldier was lightly wounded in the second gun battle.
The rescue operation lasted several hours, during which the soldier who was seriously wounded died of his wounds.
At least 20 Hizbullah guerrillas were killed in the operation.
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