Two of the seven soldiers killed overnight Sunday-Monday and early Monday battling Hamas in Gaza and on the Israeli side of the border will be laid to rest later today
Sec. Lt. Yuval Haiman, 21 from Efrat will be laid to rest at 11am Tuesday at Mount Herzl’s military section while the funeral for Baynesain Kasahun, 39 from Netivot is set for 1:00pm at the military cemetery in Netivot.
SSgt. Yuval Dagan, 22, from Kfar Sava was laid to rest Monday night.
The funerals for the remaining four — Lt. Col. Dolev Kedar, 38 from Modi’in; SS. Tal Yifrach, 21, from Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Nadav Goldmacher, 23, from Beersheba; SFC; and SS Jordan Ben-Simon, 22 from Ashkelon — are yet to be announced.
Four of the soldiers were killed during a pre-dawn tunnel infiltration into southern Israel in which Hamas terrorists planned to attack Kibbutz Nir Am, according to military sources.
The three others were killed in Shejaiya in Gaza City. Two were hit by an anti-tank missile fired into a building. Like the 13 IDF soldiers killed there overnight Saturday-Sunday, they were members of the Golani Brigade. The third may have been killed by IDF forces in error.
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