The IDF reported Sunday afternoon that Sergeant Oz Daniel, 19, a soldier of the 7th Armored Brigade's 77th Battalion, from Kfar Saba, was killed on October 7 and his body is held in the Gaza Strip.
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Earlier Sunday, the IDF announced that Staff Sergeant Ido Eli Zrihen, 20, from Jerusalem and Staff Sergeant Narya Belete, 21, from Shavei Shomron, both of the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit, were killed in a battle in southern Gaza. Three others were badly hurt in the same battle.
Zrihen will be laid to rest later on Sunday in the military cemetery at Mt. Herzl.
Belete comes from a family that immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia and was the second-born child out of six. He was buried in the military cemetery in Netanya.
Since October 7, 579 IDF soldiers have been killed, 239 of them since the beginning of the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. There are 317 wounded soldiers hospitalized for injuries sustained in fighting, including 29 in serious condition. Since the outbreak of the war, 2,965 soldiers have been injured, 453 of them in serious condition.
First published: 08:56, 02.25.24