The IDF announced that three soldiers were killed and two others were seriously injured amidst the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

The soldiers have been identified as:

– Maj. David Nati Alfasi HY’D, 27, a deputy battalion commander in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, from Beersheba.

– Maj. Ilay Levy HY’D, 24, a company commander in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, from Tel Aviv.

– Cpt. Eyal Mevorach Twito HY’D, 22, a platoon commander in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, from Beit Gamliel.

Their deaths raises the IDF’s ground operation death toll in Gaza to 198.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)