The Golani Brigade is regarded as an elite Israeli infantry unit and has been deployed to southern Lebanon as part of Israel’s ground operation there.
Sunday’s assault is also the single bloodiest attack on IDF troops inside Israel since the beginning of the war last October.
Amitai Alon, who was killed in the drone attack on Sunday.
But the drone sent by Hezbollah at the weekend managed to slip through without triggering Israel’s alert systems.
In June, Hezbollah released a nine-minute video filmed by a drone showing civilian and military locations in and around one of Israel’s largest cities, Haifa.
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