Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers his condolences to the families of two Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed yesterday in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
“Together with all the citizens of Israel, my wife Sara and I send our heartfelt condolences to the families of Captain Noam Ravid and Staff Sergeant Yaly Seror, of blessed memory, who fell in battle in Gaza,” the premier says in a statement from his office.
“We share in the unbearable grief of the families who lost what was most precious to them. We will forever remember our heroes, Noam and Yaly, who defended our country and its citizens,” the statement continues.
Ravid, 23, from Sha’arei Tikva, and Seror, 20, from Omer, were killed in an explosion at a booby-trapped tunnel shaft, the military announced earlier today. Both served in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
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