An Israeli military officer was killed on Saturday when an explosive-laden drone detonated in southern Lebanon, Anadolu reports.
The Israeli army said in a statement that “24-year-old Captain Maoz Israel Recanati, a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, was killed in clashes in southern Lebanon.”
“Recanati was killed by a drone strike. He is the 20th Israeli soldier killed in Lebanon since the start of the war with Iran on February 28 and the 7th since the ceasefire began on April 16,” according to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
This is the second officer whose death Israel has announced in the past 24 hours in the fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s drone attacks on Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon have become a nightmare for Tel Aviv, which now considers them one of “the most complex and dangerous security challenges facing its forces.”
