IDF soldier Moshe Yitzchak Katz, 22, from Connecticut, killed in south Lebanon
The Times of Israel • • world
Key Points:
- Sgt. Moshe Yitzchak Katz, a 22-year-old IDF soldier and lone soldier from the US, was killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon overnight between Friday and Saturday.
- Three other soldiers were moderately wounded in the attack and hospitalized, with an additional 20 soldiers wounded in a separate Hezbollah attack the same night.
- Katz had moved to Israel to serve in the IDF out of a deep sense of mission and Zionism, choosing to stay in Israel to fight rather than visit his family for Passover.
- The IDF has intensified operations in Lebanon following renewed Hezbollah rocket attacks that began on March 2, which Hezbollah claims were in response to Israeli strikes and the killing of Iran’s supreme leader.
- Since the March 2 escalation, five IDF soldiers, including Katz, and three Israeli civilians have been killed in the conflict, amid ongoing tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border.
