{"id":788974,"date":"2026-05-11T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:08:15","slug":"first-sergeant-alexander-glovanyov-killed-near-lebanon-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788974\/","title":{"rendered":"First Sergeant Alexander Glovanyov killed near Lebanon border"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Sergeant (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, from Petah Tikva, was killed on Sunday after a Hezbollah drone hit the tank carrier he was driving near the Israel-Lebanon border<\/a>, the IDF announced on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Glovanyov served as a lead vehicle driver in the 6924th Transport Battalion under the Technological and Logistics Directorate.<\/p>\n

A preliminary investigation showed that Hezbollah terrorists had launched a fiber optic drone toward Israel. The drone had hit Glovanyov\u2019s tank carrier near an IDF outpost on the Israeli side of the border.<\/p>\n

The explosion seriously wounded Glovanyov. Soldiers from the outpost attempted to provide him with medical treatment, but were forced to declare him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

According to Army Radio, the IDF had failed to identify the drones<\/a>, and as such, Glovanyov received no advanced warning of the danger and was killed by one of the explosions.<\/p>\n

Further, Army Radio said that Glovanyov was the fourth IDF soldier to be killed during the ongoing ceasefire<\/a> with Hezbollah as a result of explosive drones.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife and I extend our heartfelt condolences to the family of the late 1st Sgt. (res.) Alexander Globnyov z\u201dl, who fell near the Lebanese border,\u201d Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post to X\/Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexander z\u201dl, aged 47 at the time of his death, volunteered for reserve duty out of a deep commitment and profound sense of mission to defend the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former prime minister Naftali Bennet also offered his condolences to Glovanyov\u2019s family over his death in an early Sunday morning post to X.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe heart aches over the fall of 1stSgt. (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, from Petah Tikva, was killed by a Hezbollah explosive drone strike near the Lebanese border,\u201d Bennett wrote. \u201cAt the age of 47, Alexander volunteered for reserve duty to serve the state and protect us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel echoed the sentiment in her own post, extending her condolences to the family \u201cover the death of their beloved one, a driver in the 6924th Battalion of the Transportation Center, in a battle near the Lebanese border.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glovanyov was a \u201cman of the land who reported for reserve duty out of a sense of mission and profound dedication,\u201d Haskel added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Sergeant (res.) Alexander Glovanyov, 47, from Petah Tikva, was killed on Sunday after a Hezbollah drone hit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5247,13855,4783,4784,13850,99,13192,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-788974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-drone","9":"tag-fallen-soldiers","10":"tag-hezbollah","11":"tag-idf","12":"tag-idf-soldiers","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-lebanon","15":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116556576402416759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}