{"id":456548,"date":"2026-05-23T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:35:08","slug":"idf-soldier-killed-by-hezbollah-drone-near-lebanon-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456548\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF soldier killed by Hezbollah drone near Lebanon border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Sgt. Noam Hamburger, 23, from Atlit, was killed Friday afternoon when a <a id=\"H1VVe00fzuJeGg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/rjtrjujlzl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah drone<\/a> launched from Lebanon struck IDF troops inside Israeli territory near the border.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburger served as a technology and maintenance combat soldier in the 9th Battalion of the 401st Brigade.<\/p>\n<p>The drone hit the area where IDF troops were operating at around 2:20 p.m. Friday. Hamburger was killed in the blast, and two other soldiers were wounded and evacuated for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF said one of the soldiers was seriously wounded and a non-commissioned officer was lightly wounded. Their families have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 minutes later, at around 2:45 p.m., another explosive drone fell in the area. No injuries were reported in the second incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff Sgt. Noam Hamburger, 23, from Atlit, was killed Friday afternoon when a Hezbollah drone launched from Lebanon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-456548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}