The Israeli military has said a soldier was killed today in fighting in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports.

Captain David Hazutt, 21, a platoon commander “fell in combat” in southern Lebanon, the military said.

Hazutt was killed when soldiers encountered a “Hezbollah terrorist after entering a suspicious structure in the area of Deir Seryan in southern Lebanon”, a military official said in a separate statement.

In the incident, an additional Israeli soldier was lightly injured, the official said.

“Following the incident, the soldiers began searching for the terrorist and struck targets in the area,” the official added.