An IDF officer was killed in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon on Friday, the military announces.
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.
Recanati was set to marry his fiancée, Rani, in about a month, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We all embrace her and his loved ones during this difficult time,” the statement reads.
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