IDF soldier killed, another seriously wounded during fighting in northern Gaza

Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu (Israel Defense Forces)
Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu (Israel Defense Forces)

The military announces that a solider was killed fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, raising the toll in the ground offensive sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught last year to 350.

He is named as Staff Sgt. Noam Israel Abdu, 20, of the Bislamach Brigade’s 17th Battalion, from Kadima-Zoran.

The Israel Defense Forces says another soldier was seriously wounded in the same incident in which Abdu was killed.

Separately, a reservist from the the Alexandroni Brigade’s 7012th Battalion was seriously hurt during fighting in southern Lebanon.

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