HY’D: IDF Soldier Killed, Four Wounded in Anti-Tank Missile Attack

An IDF soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack in southern Lebanon yesterday, the IDF announced.

The slain soldier is named as Sgt. Aviaad Elchanan Volansky, 21, of the 7th Armored Brigade’s 77th Battalion, from Jerusalem.

Volansky is the son of Defense Establishment Comptroller Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Volansky, who previously commanded the 401st Armored Brigade.

According to an initial IDF probe, Hezbollah operatives launched two anti-tank missiles from an area north of the Litani River in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon, targeting an Israeli Merkava tank.

The first missile was intercepted by the Merkava’s TROPHY active protection system, while the second struck the tank, killing Volansky and wounding other crewmembers, according to the probe.

The IDF says two officers and two soldiers of the 77th Battalion were lightly wounded in the incident.

Volansky is the fourth IDF soldier to be killed in Israel’s renewed ground offensive against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.