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Last week, the IDF announced the deaths of two additional soldiers in Gaza.
By JNS Staff
Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed on Tuesday when their armored vehicle was struck by an explosive, the military confirmed on Wednesday morning.
The soldiers were identified as Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, 21, from Kfar Yona; Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, 20, from Rehovot; Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, 20, from Elyakhin; Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, 19, from Mazkeret Batya; Sgt. Shahar Manoav, 21, from Ashkelon; Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, 20, from Eshhar; and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21, from Kiryat Yam.
They all served in the IDF’s 605th Combat Engineering Battalion.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called news “a very painful morning,” saying, “We bow our heads and embrace the families of the slain soldiers.”
“We are all with you—in sorrow, in embrace, and in tears. We pray for the recovery of the wounded soldiers and offer strength to all IDF soldiers and their commanders, who bear on their shoulders the defense of all our lives,” Herzog concluded.
Last week, the IDF announced the deaths of two additional soldiers in Gaza.
IDF Staff Sgt. Stav Halfon, 20, from Petach Tikvah, was reportedly killed by sniper fire in the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Staff Sgt. Naveh Leshem, 20, was also killed in the southern Strip.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 434, and at 878 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, per official military figures.
The IDF is continuing to press ahead with ground operations across Gaza as part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” a campaign with the stated goal of dismantling Hamas’s remaining military capabilities, taking control of key areas in Gaza and securing the release of the remaining 53 captives.
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