Brit-Israeli soldier, 20, killed in Gaza by ‘explosive device'
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A BRIT-Israeli soldier has been killed by an explosive in Gaza, reports say.
Tragic Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, died in the Kafr Jabalia area in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, died in the Gaza Strip
He had been living in Israel with his family for the last 12 years.
The IDF soldier had been living in the city of Ra'anna.
And he was part of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion.
He was killed by an explosive on Sunday, the Times of Israel reported.
The Foreign Office said it was "looking into reports that an IDF soldier who died in combat in Gaza is a British national".
Yisrael is believed to be the third British-Israeli soldier killed since the bloody October 7 attacks two years ago.
His death comes after Binyamin Needham, 19, was killed in December 2023 after serving for two days in Gaza.
And IDF soldier Nathanel Young, 20, was killed in February last year.
A family friend told Haaretz newspaper that Nathanel was 'just a lovely, sweet boy who was always smiling'.
At the time of his death, she said: "Today our sweet Nathan was taken from us and he is young, very young; this has to stop.
"Get the soldiers out of there and get the hostages out. Enough… my heart is broken."
A Gaza civil defence spokesman, told AFP that Sunday's death toll in the strip had risen to 34 people, including at least four children.
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