IDF names 7th soldier killed yesterday when armored vehicle hit by explosive in south Gaza

25 June 2025, 9:59 am Edit

Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov killed in the Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025 (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces names the seventh soldier killed during fighting in Gaza yesterday as Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21, from Kiryat Yam.

Davidov and the six other soldiers named earlier this morning were killed in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, when an armored vehicle they were in was hit by an explosive device.

They all served with the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion. Davidov served as a medic.

According to an initial IDF probe, a Palestinian terror operative planted a bomb on the solders’ Puma armored combat engineering vehicle while they were driving in Khan Younis.

The blast set the vehicle on fire, and efforts to extinguish it were unsuccessful. All the soldiers inside perished in the blaze.