Soldier killed fighting in southern Gaza, IDF says

Sergeant first class (res.) Shimon Yehoshua Asulin. (IDF)
Sergeant first class (res.) Shimon Yehoshua Asulin. (IDF)

The Israel Defense Forces says Sgt. First Class (res.) Shimon Yehoshua Asulin, a 24-year-old resident of Beit Shemesh, was killed in battle Saturday.

Asulin, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 924th Battalion, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip, the army said.

He is the 225th soldier to have been killed in Israel’s ground operation in Gaza.

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