During the incident in which civilian researcher Zeev Erlich, 71, was killed in southern Lebanon, an IDF soldier was killed and two others were wounded, the military announces.
The name of the slain soldier will be announced later, the IDF says.
Col. Yoav Yarom, the Golani Brigade’s chief of staff who was accompanying Erlich to an archaeological site without the proper approvals, was moderately wounded in the gun battle with two Hezbollah operatives at the site.
A company commander with the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion was also seriously wounded in the same incident.
The two Hezbollah gunmen were killed, according to an IDF probe.
The IDF has retroactively recognized Erlich as a major in reserves, despite him not being in active duty when he was killed.
His entry to southern Lebanon is under investigation by the IDF.
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