Gaza ambush leaves at least 5 Israeli soldiers killed, 14 injured
Initial reports shared by Israeli media revealed that five soldiers were killed and 10 wounded.
The army revealed the names of those soldiers killed in the explosive device attack: Staff Sergeant Meir Shimon Amar, 20, from Jerusalem, Sergeant Moshe Nissim Frech, 20, from Jerusalem, Staff-Sergeant Noam Aharon Musgadian, 20, from Jerusalem, and Sergeant-Major Benyamin Asulin, 28, from Haifa, and Staff-Sergeant Moshe Shmuel Noll, 21, from Beit Shemesh.
The incident occurred late Monday evening when Palestinian resistance fighters detonated an explosive device in an armored vehicle carrying Israeli soldiers and then targeted a robot loaded with ammunition with an anti-tank missile in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
Israeli media reported that the ambush was well-planned, with the first explosive device targeting a tank, a second targeting a rescue force, and a third targeting an additional rescue force.
A fourth explosive device and small arms fire then targeted all those wounded at the start of the attack.
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