First aid responders are seen at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Roummane on March 26, 2026. AFP
"Staff sergeant Ori Greenberg, aged 21, from Petah Tikva, a soldier of the Reconnaissance unit, Golani Brigade, fell during combat in southern Lebanon," the military said.
In total, three Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in south Lebanon with the Hezbollah group since Israel resumed its bombing campaign on Lebanon on March 2.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, launched a new volley of missiles early Thursday at military sites in central Israel, after its chief Naim Qassem said negotiations with Israel would amount to "surrender".
On Wednesday, the Lebanese group said its fighters launched more than 80 attacks against Israel, the largest daily number in the current war, and attacked Israeli forces in nine border towns.
According to the Lebanese health ministry, 42 health workers are among more than 1,000 people killed in Lebanon in more than three weeks of Israeli strikes.
Lebanese authorities say upwards of one million people have been displaced.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not condemn Lebanon to the same fate as Gaza.
"The Gaza model must not be replicated in Lebanon," Guterres told reporters on Wednesday, also saying the wider war in the Middle East is "out of control," as the United States and Israel have launched a war on Iran and Tehran retaliates with strikes for more than three weeks.
"Across the region, and far beyond, civilians are enduring serious harm and living under profound insecurity. I witnessed some of these consequences firsthand during my recent visit to Lebanon," he said.
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