The IDF on Wednesday named three soldiers of the 50th Battalion of the Nahal Brigade who were killed by an explosive in a booby-trapped building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
They are Staff Sgt. Amir Galilov, 20, from Shimsheet; Staff Sgt. Uri Bar Or, 21, from Midreshet Ben-Gurion and Staff Sgt. Ido Appel, 21, from Tzofar.
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Staff Sgt. Uri Bar Or, Staff Sgt. Ido Appel and Staff Sgt. Amir Galilov
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
According to the army, a 50th Battalion officer and two other soldiers were seriously wounded in the blast. They were evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and their families have been notified.
Earlier Wednesday, a soldier from the Multidimensional Unit was seriously injured in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday, a combat officer and another soldier from the 614th Battalion of the Combat Engineering School were seriously injured in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
Additionally, a soldier from the Yahalom Special Forces Unit of the Combat Engineering Corps was seriously injured in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.
The IDF death toll since the outbreak of the war on October 7 has reached 639, and 290 in the ground offensive in Gaza.
Palestinian reports said Tuesday that Israeli tanks entered central Rafah for the first time and added seeing tanks near the Al-Awda Mosque, a central landmark in the city, less than a week after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ordered a halt to the military’s operations in Gaza’s southern border city.
Meanwhile, the IDF reported that an additional brigade had joined the ones already fighting in the Rafah area under the 162nd Division. The military noted that the 401st and Nahal Brigades operated on the Philadelphi Corridor overnight against terror targets and infrastructure, acting based on detailed intelligence indicating terrorists were present in the area.
On Sunday, the IDF reported that Staff Sergeant Betzalel Zvi Kovach, 20, a soldier in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, from Jerusalem, succumbed to his wounds after being critically wounded in battle in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun last week.
Later that day, the army reported that Staff Sergeant Sahar Sudaei, 20, a soldier of the Givati Brigade's 435th Battalion, from Tel Aviv, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.