{"id":48546,"date":"2026-05-28T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48546"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:31:15","slug":"israeli-soldier-killed-by-hezbollah-drone-near-lebanon-border-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israeli-soldier-killed-by-hezbollah-drone-near-lebanon-border-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli soldier killed by Hezbollah drone near Lebanon border: military"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Israeli military said on Thursday that a soldier was killed the day before by a Hezbollah drone near the Lebanon border, taking to 24 the number of its troops killed in the war with the Iran-backed group.<\/p>\n<p>A military statement named her as 20-year-old Sergeant Rotem Yanai, who &#8220;fell during operational activity in northern Israel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It added that one reservist soldier was severely injured and another moderately so in the same incident.<\/p>\n<p>The military told AFP that Yanai was killed by a Hezbollah explosive drone.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 24 Israelis have been killed since hostilities began on March 2, including 23 soldiers and one civilian contractor.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military on Wednesday declared all areas south of Lebanon&#8217;s Zahrani River &#8212; an area roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border &#8212; as &#8220;combat zones&#8221; and told residents to evacuate ahead of attacks against Hezbollah.\u00a0The sweeping warning was the first of its kind since an April 17 ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military said on Thursday that a soldier was killed the day before by a Hezbollah drone near the Lebanon border, taking to 24 the number of its troops killed in the war with the Iran-backed group. A military statement named her as 20-year-old Sergeant Rotem Yanai, who &#8220;fell during operational activity in northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48548,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48546\/revisions\/48548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}