The IDF has announced that three Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip today.
The fallen soldiers are identified as:
Master Sgt. (res.) Gideon Chay DeRowe, 33, of the Combat Engineering Corps' elite Yahalom unit, from Tel Aviv;
Cpt. Israel Yudkin, 22, an officer in the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Kfar Chabad;
Staff Sgt. Eliyahu Haim Emsallem, 21, of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Ra'anana.
The military says another soldier of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion and a Yahalom reservist were also seriously wounded in the same blast in a building in northern Gaza that killed DeRowe.
Another soldier of the Netzah Yehuda Battalion was seriously wounded in the Hamas sniper attack in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun that killed Emsallem and Yudkin.
282 IDF soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground operation in Gaza on October 27, 2023.
