Herzog: ‘The names of more of the best of our sons are added to the headstones of heroes’

With the announcement that 21 soldiers were killed yesterday in an incident in central Gaza, President Isaac Herzog says that “more and more of the best of our sons” have died in the war.

“An unbearably difficult morning, in which more and more names of the best of our sons are added to the gravestones of heroes, when there is no war that is more just,” Herzog writes.

“The intense battles are taking place in an extremely challenging space, and we send strength to the soldiers of the IDF and the security forces, who are working with endless determination to realize the goals of the fighting,” he writes on X.

“On behalf of the entire nation, I console the families and pray for the healing of the wounded,” he writes. “Even on this sad and difficult morning, we are strong and remember that together we will win.”