The IDF announces the deaths of three soldiers in the Hamas-claimed rocket attack against a staging ground near Kerem Shalom in southern Israel earlier today.
The slain soldiers are named as:
Staff Sgt. Ruben Marc Mordechai Assouline, 19 of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Ra’anana.
Staff Sgt. Ido Testa, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Staff Sgt. Tal Shavit, 21, of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion, from Kfar Giladi.
Another 11 soldiers were wounded in the rocket attack, including two soldiers of the 931st Battalion and a soldier of the Shaked Battalion who are listed in serious condition.
Hamas launched more than 10 rockets from the Rafah area in the attack.
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