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Iraq Drone Attack Kills Two IDF Soldiers on Golan Heights
Sgt. Daniel Aviv Haim Sofer (left) and Cpl. Tal Dror were killed in a drone attack launched from Iraq, Oct. 4, 2024. Photo: Israel Defense Forces.
JNS.org – Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two dozen others were wounded by a drone attack launched from Iraq, the IDF said on Friday.
The slain soldiers were named as:
Sgt. Daniel Aviv Haim Sofer, 19, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th “Gideon” Infantry Battalion, from Ashkelon; and
Cpl. Tal Dror, 19, also of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Two explosive-laden drones were launched in the attack on Thursday morning; one was intercepted and the other hit a military base in the Golan Heights.
Last week, Israeli fighter jets intercepted a drone over the southern Golan Heights that had crossed the border from the east, in what was the fifth such incident in a few days.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed militia, took credit for the attack, claiming the target had been a base belonging to the Golani Brigade.
On Sunday, the IDF intercepted a drone fired towards Israel from the direction of the Red Sea. An Israeli Navy Sa’ar 4.5 missile boat downed the unmanned aerial vehicle “outside the country’s borders,” according to the military.
Air-raid sirens sounded in Eilat and surrounding areas. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed to have launched a drone at a “vital target” in the Red Sea resort city.
On Sept. 25, two Israelis were lightly wounded in a suicide drone attack on Eilat. The IDF stated that at least two explosive-laden drones had been launched at the Jewish state “from the east.”
On Sept. 16, Israeli Air Force fighter jets shot down a drone from Iraq that was approaching the Sea of Galilee. The lake is situated in the northeastern part of the country between the Golan Heights and the Galilee.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military named eight soldiers who were killed fighting the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Southern Lebanon.
The fallen soldiers were named as Capts. Eitan Itzhak Oster, Harel Etinger and Itai Ariel Giat; Sgts. 1st Class Noam Barzilay, Or Mantzur and Nazaar Itkin; and Staff Sgts. Almken Terefe and Ido Broyer.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his “deepest condolences to the families of our heroes who fell today in Lebanon.”
“May God avenge them. May their memory be a blessing,” the prime minister said. “We’re in the heat of a grueling war against Iran’s axis of evil, aimed at destroying us. That will not happen because we shall stand together, and with God’s help, we shall emerge victorious together.”
The death toll among Israeli troops on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre stands at 726, according to official military data.
Additionally, Ch. Insp. Arnon Zamora, a member of the Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded in the Strip in May.
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Harris Says Won’t Give Up Pushing for End to Israel-Gaza War
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks before participating in a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House in Washington, U.S., May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday repeated her call for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza and said it was important to seize the opportunity provided by the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack.
Harris acknowledged challenges ahead but told reporters she would continue to push for an end to the conflict.
“This creates an opening that I believe we must take full advantage of – to dedicate ourselves to ending this war and bringing the hostages home,” she said.
“As it relates to the issues in the Middle East and in particular in that region, it has never been easy. But that doesn’t mean we give up. It’s always going to be difficult. We can’t give up.”
Harris dodged a question on whether Arab American and Muslim anger over US support for Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza and more recently in Lebanon could cost her the election in the battleground state of Michigan, but said she would continue speaking out about the tragic loss of innocent lives.
“I speak publicly all the time about the fact that there are so many tragic stories coming from Gaza,” Harris said, also referencing the initial Hamas Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“What’s critically important as we look at this moment, is … acknowledging the tragedy of what has happened in Gaza, in terms of the extraordinary number of innocent Palestinians that have been killed, and taking that seriously and speaking truth about that,” she said.
Harris and Trump are essentially tied in the most competitive states like Michigan, with just 17 days until the Nov. 5 election.
Harris will need strong results in the majority non-white cities of Detroit and Atlanta and their surrounding suburbs – both of which have large Arab American and Muslim populations – to repeat US President Joe Biden’s 2020 wins in Michigan and Georgia. Trump won Michigan by 11,000 votes in 2016. In 2020, Biden beat Trump by 155,000 votes.
Harris on Friday won the endorsements of 50 prominent Lebanese-Americans, who said the US had been “unrelenting” in its support for Lebanon under the Biden administration and that they expect additional backing if Harris wins in November.
The endorsement came amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon that have killed at least 2,350 people over the last year, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with more than 1.2 million people displaced. Hezbollah attacks have killed 50 Israeli soldiers and civilians, according to Israel.
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