A total of 34 IDF soldiers’ remain in hospitals around the country, including five paratroopers injured in a Gaza operating during the night, all transported to Tel Hashomer Hospital. Among those injured are the battalion commander and a company commander. Two of the paratroopers are listed as moderate,

Tel Hashomer also reports a paratroop officer injured seriously two days ago continues to improve, now listed as moderate.

In Petach Tikvah’s Beilinson Hospital, doctors cautiously report there is a very slight improvement in the condition of 2nd.-Lt. Aaron Karov who was listed in critical condition during the night. Golani soldier Ben Spitzer, also in Beilinson, remains in critical condition as well. He was injured last week in a mistaken fire incident.

A number of soldiers in light condition arrived in Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva on Wednesday morning. The hospital reports a total of seven soldiers at present, two serious, one moderate and the remainder light.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)