A Border Police commando and an IDF officer were killed on Friday in intense battles with terrorists in the Shijaiyah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
The Border Police officer was named as Sgt. Neta Yitzchak Kahane, H’yd, 19, a commando in the elite Yamas undercover unit from Moshav Eitan, a religious moshav in south-central Israel.
The IDF officer was named as Cpt. Ido Voloch, H’yd, 21, from Jerusalem, a platoon commander in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion.
The incident began when Hamas terrorists opened fire on soldiers engaging in efforts to expand the buffer zone along the Gazan border, sparking a fierce gun battle, during which Kahane, H’yd, was killed. The evacuation of the dead and wounded took place under fire, during which Voloch, H’yd, was killed and another soldier was lightly wounded.
Commander A., the head of the undercover unit operating in Gaza, told Ynet: “The operation began midweek, with several nights inside Gaza. We eliminated several terrorists during ambushes. Yesterday, a terrorist emerged from a tunnel, fired at the force, and Kahana, who was alert and ready, returned fire along with another fighter. The terrorist managed to fire another burst, fatally hitting Kahana.”
He added, “Soon after, heavy fire erupted from across the neighborhood. We called in reinforcements and evacuated Kahana under continuous engagement, providing medical treatment as best we could while continuing to fight until nightfall.”
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The israeli army leadership is mostly leftist. They won’t allow religious soldiers to move up in the ranks as they use them as useful idiots to fight room to room and expose them to high chances of getting killed. Instead of shooting from planes and ships and demolish and flatten all buildings in Gaza from a distance and preventing israeli soldiers from being targets.