Army orders special probe into grenade accident in Gaza that wounded 3 reservists

By Emanuel Fabian

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8 October 2025, 3:24 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The chief of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor, and the chief of the Ground Forces, Maj. Gen. Nadav Lotan, have ordered the establishment of a panel of experts to examine yesterday’s accidental grenade blast in the southern Gaza Strip, which wounded three reservists, including two seriously.

The military says the team will be headed by the commander of the 5th Reserve Brigade, a colonel.

The incident took place at around 8 a.m. on Tuesday at an IDF post in the Khan Younis area. A grenade exploded due to unclear circumstances inside a room where soldiers were residing and sleeping.