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Israeli forces say they killed two Hamas operatives responsible for deaths of 7 IDF soldiers in Gaza last week
Stav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel
The IDF and Shin Bet announce that they have killed two Hamas operatives responsible for the deaths of seven Israeli soldiers in a deadly ambush in Khan Younis on June 24.
According to a joint statement, an Israeli Air Force drone, directed by the Shin Bet and the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade, struck and killed Mosaab Yasser Abdallah Galban and Abd al-Latif Mousa Hagag Barbakh in the Khan Younis area last Thursday.
The two were involved in the ambush that killed seven IDF soldiers: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, 21; Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, 20; Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, 20; Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, 19; Sgt. Shahar Manoav, 21; Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, 20; and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21.
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