The IDF on Monday evening announced the death of Sgt. First Class (res.) Amichai Yisrael Yehoshua Oster, H’yd, 24, of Karnei Shomron, of the 5th Brigade’s 7020th Battalion.

He was killed in a battle in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday. Ynet reported that Oster, H’yd, was traveling in the US when the war broke out and immediately cut his trip short to return to Israel to serve in the reserves. He is the son of Dr. Howard Oster, deputy director of the Internal Medicine Division at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, and Marcy Spiegel Oster, an editor at Ynet. Amichai left behind three sisters, Sarah, Emunah and Tova, and his brother Yonatan, who is a soldier in southern Israel.

Another two soldiers from the battalion were seriously wounded in the same battle.

On Tuesday evening, the IDF announced the death of another soldier, increasing the death toll of the ground operation in Gaza to 174 and the death toll since October 7th to 508. He was named as Staff Sgt. Sufian Dagash, 21, from Maghar, a city with a mixed population of Druze, Christians, and Muslims in northern Israel.

He served in the Combat Engineering Corps 601st Battalion and fell in a battle earlier today in the northern Gaza Strip.

A combat officer, a reservist, and a soldier from the same battalion were seriously injured in the same battle.

Also, a reservist from the Combat Engineering Corps 710th Battalion was seriously injured in a battle in the center of the Gaza Strip. In addition, a combat officer from the 74th Battalion, 188th Brigade was seriously injured in a battle in the center of the Gaza Strip.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)