Soldier killed in West Bank shooting laid to rest in military cemetery

Mourners at the funeral ceremony for Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, on October 12, 2022, in Gedera. (Screenshot)
Mourners at the funeral ceremony for Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, on October 12, 2022, in Gedera. (Screenshot)

Ido Baruch, the 21-year-old IDF soldier killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank yesterday, is laid to rest at a funeral in the Gedera military cemetery.

Hundreds of mourners accompany Baruch’s final journey. The soldier is remembered by loved ones as a “magical child full of love, values and generosity.”

Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, 21, killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank on October 11, 2022, in an undated photo released by the military. (Israel Defense Forces)

Baruch was the second IDF soldier to be killed in a shooting attack this week, after 18-year-old Noa Lazar was killed Saturday.

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