A military statement stated that an officer of the Nahal brigade lwas killed while guarding a position when he was attacked by at least one militiaman, who then managed to escape.

On Monday, the commander of a company of the 7th armoured brigade fell after being hit by an RPG rocket in the south of that city, the most populous of the coastal enclave.

Last week, four soldiers were killed when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device hidden on the road in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

According to the IAF, since the outbreak of the conflict on October 7, 2023,912 members of the army have been killed, more than 370 of them in the attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement on that date and 466 during the invasion of Gaza.

The rest died in the occupied West Bank and in clashes with the Lebanese group Hezbollah (Party of God).

W ith the participation of four divisions, three of which are already active, last week the Army launched Operation Gideon II to reoccupy Gaza city, a campaign that forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee into the southern part of the enclave and provoked harsh criticism from the international community.

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