Israel announces soldier’s death after Hezbollah cross-border attack

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The Israeli military has said that a soldier had been killed in the north where troops are engaged in near-daily border clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, AFP reports.

The soldier “fell fighting in the north” on Wednesday, the military said in a statement, after two explosive drones were launched from Lebanon against the Israeli town of Hurfeish.

The army did not specify the exact location of the death of the soldier, whom it identified on its website as Staff Sergeant Refael Kauders, aged 39.

The military correspondent of the Times of Israel newspaper reported that the soldier was killed in a drone attack which also left nine other troops wounded, one of the seriously.

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