3 Israeli soldiers were killed and 4 seriously injured during the war with Hamas in southern Gaza.
According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli army (IDF) said in a statement that three soldiers, identified as Staff Sergeant Nachman Meir Haim Vakanin, Noam Batan and Sergeant Major Ran Yavitz, were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. .
Nachman and Noam belonged to the intelligence unit of the Givati Brigade. The two were engaged in an operation in Rafah when a bomb blast in a tunnel killed them while two other soldiers of the spy unit and an officer were seriously injured.
A third Army Sergeant Major, Ran Yavitz, was killed in an munitions explosion in a military zone inside Israel. The army said that four soldiers were injured in the blast. Further investigation of the incident is underway.
In another incident, a soldier from the Combat Engineering Battalion in Rafah was seriously injured when Hamas fighters fired a rocket at his armored bulldozer.
