IDF announces death of Staff Sgt. Eitan Rosenzweig, raising Gaza op death toll to 70

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

Staff Sgt. Eitan Dov Rosenzweig (Courtesy)
Staff Sgt. Eitan Dov Rosenzweig (Courtesy)

The Israel Defense Forces announces the death of a soldier during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip today, bringing the death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas to 70.

He is named as Staff Sgt. Eitan Dov Rosenzweig, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Alot Shvut.

The IDF also says a reservist of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and a soldier of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit were seriously hurt in separate clashes in northern Gaza.

Rosenzweig is the third member of his class at the Neve Shmuel yeshiva high school to have been killed fighting in Gaza.

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