More details emerge on soldier’s death

The army releases some additional information about the incident this afternoon in which Staff Sergeant Moshe Davino, a soldier in the Combat Engineering Corps, was killed.

The incident occurred at 2 p.m. in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Yunis, as Givati Brigade soldiers operated in tandem with soldiers from the Combat Engineering Corps. The soldiers were working to uncover a tunnel shaft, the army says, when an eight-man squad of militants fired an anti-tank missile at a 50-ton, bulletproof bulldozer called a Caterpillar D9. Davino was killed in the explosion and two other soldiers were wounded.

The gunmen retreated to a nearby building. The army says that the D9 charged the building and toppled it, apparently killing all eight attackers.

Later in the day, at 5 p.m., a Hamas mortar squad fired mortar rounds at an army staging area in the Eshkol Region, killing four soldiers and wounding six others. The soldiers in the field were not warned of incoming projectiles and had no time to seek shelter.

— Mitch Ginsburg