From the Liveblog of
Monday, December 4, 2023
IDF announces deaths of 3 more soldiers killed fighting Hamas in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces announces the deaths of another three troops killed fighting against Hamas in the Gaza Strip yesterday, bringing the military death toll since Israel’s ground offensive in late October to 75.
The troops who were killed on Sunday are:
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Neriya Shaer, 36, of the 55th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade’s 6655th Battalion, from Yavne.
Sgt. First Class (res.) Ben Zussman, 22, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Sgt. Binyamin Yehoshua Needham, 19, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion, from Zichron Yaakov.
In addition, the IDF says a soldier of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 601st Battalion was seriously wounded in battles in northern Gaza yesterday
Since the start of the war on October 7, the IDF announced the deaths of 401 soldiers including today’s notices. Of those, 75 died during the ground offensive inside the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of the others were killed in fighting with Hamas terrorists in southern Israel, almost all of them on the day of Hamas’s initial devastating onslaught on October 7.
