“Together with all of Israel,” says President Isaac Herzog on X, “I received with sorrow and pain the bitter news of the death of the 401st Brigade Commander, the late Col. Ehsan Daqsa, who fell today in battle in Jabaliya.
Daqsa fell earlier today, after his tank was hit by an explosive device.
“Ehsan — a hero of Israel, a brave, humble and ethical warrior — and his fall is a loss to Israel and to Israeli society as a whole,” Herzog continues.
“I salute him and hug his family, the community of Daliyat al-Carmel, and our sisters and brothers from the Druze community who have lost many precious sons since the beginning of the fighting with devotion, a sense of mission and shared destiny,” says the president.
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