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Capt. David Hazutt, 21, Killed in Hezbollah Ambush in Deir Siryan
Capt. David Hazutt, 21, of Ashkelon, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade's 12th Battalion, was killed at roughly 2 a.m. Sunday when a Hezbollah operative concealed in a stairwell opened fire on his troops as they searched a suspicious structure in Deir Siryan, southern Lebanon. A second soldier was lightly wounded. Hazutt is the first IDF fatality since the US-brokered Israel-Lebanon trilateral framework was signed Friday, June 26. The IDF launched an immediate manhunt and later confirmed killing the gunman, while the IAF and ground forces struck additional Hezbollah targets near Taybeh and Shebaa. Hazutt was laid to rest Sunday at the military cemetery in Ashkelon.