Reservist Nitzan Schessler killed fighting in southern Gaza, bringing ground op toll to 189

Sgt. First Class (res.) Nitzan Schessler (Israel Defense Forces)
Sgt. First Class (res.) Nitzan Schessler (Israel Defense Forces)

The Israel Defense Forces announces that Sgt. First Class (res.) Nitzan Schessler was killed fighting yesterday in the southern Gaza Strip, raising the death toll in Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas to 189.

Schessler, 21, from Hadera, was in the the 55th Brigade’s 7155th Battalion.

The army says that another reservist from Schessler’s battalion was seriously injured during the battle in which he was killed and that in a separate incident, a soldier in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 603rd Battalion was seriously hurt fighting in southern Gaza.

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