Eldad Regev

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Eldad Regev (image courtesy of the Regev family)

Eldad Regev is an Israeli soldier, born in Qiryat Motzkin, captured by Hezbollah fighters along with Ehud Goldwasser on 12 July 2006, in Israel near the Lebanese border, sparking the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. [1] His rank is First Sergeant. [2]

On 11 October, Shlomo Goldwasser, father of the other captured soldier, said that although the kidnapped soldiers issue "went down from the public's agenda, those who are tasked with releasing the soldiers are working day and night to find a solution."^[1]

Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, stated on 31 October 2006 that indirect talks with Israel on hostage return had begun.^[2]

Hezbollah has refused to state whether Eldad and Ehud are alive. Both soldiers are believed to have been critically wounded during their capture.

1 The raid
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] The raid

Main article: Zar'it-Shtula incident

The fighting began at around 8 AM when Hezbollah launched a barrage of Katyusha rockets and mortars on Israeli towns and military positions along the Lebanese border, apparently as a diversion.^[3] A force then attacked two armored IDF Humvees patrolling near the Israeli village of Zar'it with anti-tank rockets, killing three soldiers and capturing the two others, and then retreating into Lebanon near the town of Ayta al-Sha`b.

An Israeli Merkava Mk. II tank was destroyed by a 200-300 kg improvised explosive device while attempting to pursue the soldiers into Lebanon, killing all four crewmembers.^[4] An eighth soldier was killed while attempting to retrieve their bodies.^{[citation needed]}