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testified to having seen the three captives alive at the time. Baumel's body was recovered in a secret military operation in 2019. Lieberman was returned to Israel in a prisoner exchange in June 1984. Feldman and Katz remain missing in action.
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only to become cut off and surrounded. At dawn, the
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missiles into the long columns of
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Magach-3 tanks they left behind and they were recovered the next day by the
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lost 10 tanks and about 30 killed. The
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Lebanon 1982: The
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helicopters, used against both ground targets and the Gazelles.
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Battle between Syria and Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War
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