 Both soldiers presumably died during the attack, and their bodies were returned to Israel in an exchange with Hezbollah in 1996.The authors of the order were the three top officers of the IDF Northern Command, Major General Yossi Peled, the command's operations officer, Colonel Gabi Ashkenazi, and its intelligence officer, Colonel Yaakov Amidror.Leibovich-Dar claimed that the directive name had been generated by an IDF computer random code.