Three Israeli soldiers were killed fighting the Hamas terror group in the northern Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday night.
Two of the slain troops were identified by the IDF as 1st Sgt. Matityahu Ya’akov Perel, 22, from Beit El, and 1st Sgt. Kenew Kasa, 22, from Beit Shemesh. Both soldiers served in the 46th Armored Battalion of the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade, according to the IDF announcement.
The name of the third soldier killed in the incident was not yet cleared for publication, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari added.
Hagari said that in the same incident, an officer in the 46th Armored Battalion of the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade sustained serious wounds. The wounded officer was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
Earlier this week, three IDF soldiers were killed in the northern Strip, where the military is fighting a resurgence of the Hamas terror group.
Sgt. 1st Class Ido Samiach, 20, from Ganei Tikva, a team sergeant in the Nachal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, was killed in action on Tuesday.
Two soldiers were slain on Monday. They were named as Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, of the Nachal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, from Eli in Samaria; and Maj. Dvir Zion Revach, 28, a company commander in the 932nd Battalion of the Nachal Brigade, from Yerushalayim.
The official death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the ground incursion in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27, 2023, now stands at 399, and at 831 on all fronts since the Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzchak was mortally wounded there in May. JNS
{Matzav.com Israel}