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Wednesday, May 29, 2024
3 soldiers killed yesterday in booby-trapped building in Gaza’s Rafah
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Three Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday amid operations in southern Gaza’s Rafah, the military announces.
The slain troops are named as:
- Staff Sgt. Amir Galilove, 20, from Shimshit
- Staff Sgt. Uri Bar Or, 21, from Midreshet Ben-Gurion
- Staff Sgt. Ido Appel, 21, from Tzofar.
They all served in the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion.
Their deaths bring the toll of slain troops in the IDF’s ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and amid operations along the border to 291.
According to an initial IDF probe, the three were killed by a blast in a booby-trapped building.
An officer and two soldiers of the 50th Battalion were seriously wounded and another officer was moderately hurt in the same incident, the military says.
In another incident yesterday, an officer and a soldier of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 614th Battalion were seriously wounded while fighting terror operatives in northern Gaza.
Separately, a soldier of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit was seriously wounded and three other soldiers were lightly and moderately hurt as a result of a blast in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in southern Gaza yesterday.
Earlier today, a soldier of the Multi-Domain Unit was seriously hurt in northern Gaza, the IDF adds.
