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IDF says Staff Sgt. Negev Dagan killed by Hezbollah shell in Lebanon
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Staff Sgt. Negev Dagan, 20, was killed in Lebanon on May 14, 2026. (Courtesy of the IDF)
An IDF soldier was killed by Hezbollah mortar fire in southern Lebanon last night, the military announces.
The slain soldier is named as Staff Sgt. Negev Dagan, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, from the southern community of Dekel.
Dagan is the sixth IDF soldier to be killed in southern Lebanon since the start of a ceasefire, and the nineteenth since hostilities escalated amid the Iran war. A civilian contractor was also killed.
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