The Israeli army announced that one of its soldiers had been killed on Monday in fighting in southern Lebanon, bringing to 26 the number of Israeli military deaths since early March.
Staff Sergeant Adam Tzarfati, 20, “fell in combat in southern Lebanon”, the army said in a brief statement.
An Israeli military source told AFP that the soldier was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack.
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In total, 26 Israelis have been killed, 25 soldiers and one civilian contractor, since hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah resumed on March 2, when the Shiite militant group reopened the front in support of Tehran, following US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
AFP
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