Fourteen soldiers died in the Gaza Strip in the last 48 hours, among the deadliest days in the Israeli ranks since the ground offensive began in the enclave, where the fighting has intensified in the last week.
Total, 153 Israeli soldiers have died in combat in the enclave since the start of the ground offensive on October 27surpassing the 119 who died in the 2006 Lebanon war, according to official Army figures.
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“This is a difficult morning, after a very difficult day of fighting in Gaza. On behalf of the government and all the people of Israel, I send condolences to the families of our heroic warriors who fell in this war for our homeland,” the Israeli Prime Minister said today. Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The war is taking a very high toll on us, but we have no choice but to continue fighting,” Netanyahu said. at the beginning of the weekly meeting with his government cabinet, in which he said that the offensive will continue for “several months,” until the “destruction of Hamas” and until “Loop “Don’t be a threat anymore.”
The bombings and battles have caused more than 20,200 deaths in the Strip – more than 70% civilians, including more than 8,000 children – and 56,000 injuries.the highest toll of victims that any other conflict has left in Palestinian territory, according to the count of the Gazan Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
Among the soldiers who lost their lives yesterday Saturday, four were members of the 7th armored brigadeall with the rank of sergeant, who died in the battles in the south of the Stripein the area of Jan Yunisbastion of Hamas where the fighting is now concentrated.
Two other sergeants of the Yiffach brigadean infantry unit made up of reservists, died in the center of the enclave, the same area in which two other soldiers, one of them a paratrooper, died in combat.
A captain from the Nahal brigade also died in the north, one of the elite units; and in the last hours another sergeant from an engineering unit.
On Friday four other soldiers lost their lives, two of them from the Givati infantry brigade.
Since the war began, 486 Israeli soldiers have died, most of them, 333, during the brutal Hamas attack on October 7 and in the fighting of the following two days on Israeli soil, in addition to 68 police officers.
The Hamas attack left more than 1,200 dead and 24 kidnapped in Israel.
