Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends his condolences to the families of the two IDF soldiers killed in the attack at Allenby Crossing near Jordan today, as well as the four soldiers killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah this morning, in a statement vowing that Israel “will continue to strike [its] enemies forcefully.”
“This is a difficult evening,” the premier says in a statement from his office, condemning the “abhorrent” attack at Allenby Crossing that killed Lt. Col. (res.) Yitzhak Harosh and Sgt. Oran Hershko.
“In a battle in Gaza, four of our heroic fighters fell today,” Netanyahu adds, saying the four of them — Maj. Omri Chai Ben Moshe, Lt. Eran Shelem, Lt. Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, and Lt. Ron Arieli — “fought bravely for the defeat of Hamas and the return of all our hostages.”
“In the spirit of the bravery and courage of our fighters, we will continue to strike our enemies forcefully until we complete all the objectives of our war [in Gaza],” Netanyahu says in the statement.
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