HY’D: IDF Soldier Killed In Lebanon Fighting

An IDF officer was killed in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon on Friday, the military announced.

The slain officer is named as Cpt. Maoz Israel Recanati, 24, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, from Itamar.

Recanati is the seventh IDF soldier to be killed in southern Lebanon since the start of a ceasefire, and the 20th since hostilities escalated amid the Iran war. A civilian contractor was also killed in southern Lebanon.