On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces announced the death of two soldiers and the injury of an officer and three other soldiers in battles with the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports.
The slain soldiers -who both serve in the Givati’s Brigade’s reconnaissance unit- were killed in a blast from a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
There name are:
Staff Sergeant Nachman Meir Haim Vaknin, 20 years old, from Eilat.
Staff Sergeant Noam Bittan, 20 years old, from Yad Rambam.
Another two soldiers and an officer were injured as a result of the blast.
This brings the death toll of dead Israeli soldiers since the start of the ground invasion of the Strip to 282 since Oct. 27, 2023.
