Five fighters wounded by Hezbollah explosive drone in southern Lebanon

Five fighters were wounded on Wednesday by a Hezbollah explosive drone strike in southern Lebanon. One was listed in serious condition, two were moderately wounded, and two sustained light injuries.

The attack came after a series of similar incidents in the area. On Sunday, before the agreement reached between the United States and Iran, two IDF fighters were wounded, one moderately and one lightly, when Hezbollah fired rockets at troops in southern Lebanon. Last Thursday, a female fighter was moderately wounded by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon.

That incident happened only hours after the army reported that an officer had been seriously wounded by an improvised explosive device during an operation in Jenin in northern Samaria, and that a senior non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded. The day before that, the military cleared for publication the name of Reserve Master Sgt. Chaim Klumiti, 55, a territorial defense fighter in Battalion 8881 of the Ephraim Brigade and a member of the emergency squad in Moshav Tzur Natan, who was killed in a shooting attack in the Sharon region. Another reserve fighter was seriously wounded in that attack.

The most recent fatalities in southern Lebanon occurred about a week and a half ago. They were Capt. Shachar Gamla, 23, from Einot Shapir in the Golan Heights, deputy company commander in the Egoz unit of the Commando Brigade, who died of his wounds after being seriously hurt days earlier, and Sgt. Ohad Yaari, 21, from Rehovot, a fighter in the Shaked Battalion of the Givati Brigade, who was killed by accidental gunfire from a fellow soldier.