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Video released showing fallen soldier Itay Ariel Giat in his final days – Israel News

Video released showing fallen soldier Itay Ariel Giat in his final days – Israel News

The Israeli army on Sunday released the latest GoPro camera video of Captain Itay Ariel Giat, a soldier in the Yahalom unit.

The video was filmed on October 1, a day before his death, during IDF operational activities.

Soldiers from the Egoz unit, including those from Giat’s team, carried out a targeted raid on Hezbollah terrorist sites in southern Lebanon, where Giat fell during a clash with terrorists in southern Lebanon on October 2.

Giat, alongside Egoz’s soldiers, located and destroyed a significant number of Hezbollah infrastructure and buildings. Soldiers also located numerous weapons, including mortars, anti-tank missiles and loaded rocket launchers belonging to Hezbollah.

In memory of Itay Ariel Giat

Without explicitly mentioning Giat by name, the father of a soldier injured in the incident told the British newspaper The times that his son had been saved thanks to an officer next to him. The officer mentioned in this incident was killed.

From left to right: Captain Harel Etinger, Sgt.-Maj. Nazar Itkin, Sgt.-Maj. Noam Barzilay, Capt. Itai Ariel Giat, St.-Sgt. Ido Broyer, St. Sgt. Almken Terefe, Sgt.-Maj. Or Mantzur. (illustration) (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

“My son was very lucky,” the father said. “The man next to him, who died, protected him.”

Giat fell alongside Captain Eitan Oster, Captain Harel Etinger, St.-Sgt. Ido Broyer, Sgt.-Maj. Noam Barzilay, Sgt.-Maj. Or Mantzur, Sgt-Maj Nazar Itkin and St.-Sgt. Almken Terefe.

A message of condolences was also shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said: “I would like to extend my condolences from the bottom of my heart to the families of our heroes who fell today in Lebanon. »