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IDF announces deaths of three soldiers in northern Gaza
The three, St.-Sgt. Lior Steinberg, St.-Sgt. Ofek Barhana, and St.-Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, were killed in battle in Gaza.
The IDF announced that three soldiers, St.-Sgt. Lior Steinberg, St.-Sgt. Ofek Barhana, and St.-Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, were killed in battle in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
St.-Sgt. Steinberg, 20, from Petah Tikva, served in the 9th Battalion in the Givati Brigade as a combat medic.
St.-Sgt. Barhana, 20, from Yavne, served in the same battalion and brigade as a combat medic.
St.-Sgt. Gelder, 22, from Ma'ale Adumim, served in the same battalion and brigade as a squad commander.
The three were killed when the Hummer vehicle, on which the soldiers were riding, was damaged after it hit an explosive device.
In the same incident, two soldiers were seriously wounded, and nine others were moderately and lightly wounded.
All three of the killed soldiers were posthumously promoted from the ranks of Sergeant to Staff Sergeant.
The Givati Brigade is currently operating in Jabalya, where they are destroying terrorist infrastructure above and below ground, eliminating terrorists.
In another incident in Jabalya, terrorists fired at a rescue helicopter from Unit 669. One soldier was seriously wounded, three were moderately wounded, and one was lightly wounded.
In a series of encounters in the southern Gaza Strip, 14 soldiers were moderately and lightly wounded, and most of them did not require evacuation.
This is a developing story.
