An Israel Defense Forces reservist has died of wounds sustained in an accident in northern Gaza on Oct. 7, the military announced on Saturday night.
Master Sgt. (res.) Shmuel Gad Rahamim, 31, of the Southern Brigade’s 7015th Battalion and a resident of Givat Ze’ev, was seriously wounded on Tuesday morning when a grenade accidentally detonated at an IDF post in the Khan Yunis area where soldiers were sleeping.
The cause of the incident, in which two other reservists were wounded, one of them seriously, remains under investigation.
On Thursday, Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Michael Mordechai Nachmani, 26, from the 614th Combat Engineering Battalion, was killed in action in the northern Gaza Strip hours before a ceasefire took effect.
According to an initial IDF probe, he was killed by a Hamas sniper in Gaza City.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, now stands at 468, and at 915 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.
Early Friday morning, the Israeli Cabinet approved the first stage of a U.S.-brokered plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
Under the deal, Israel is expected to receive by Monday 20 living hostages and the bodies of another 28.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Friday visited the National Military Cemetery in Jerusalem to pay his respects at the graves of soldiers killed in action during the war.
“Now leaving Mount Herzl, from the sections where those who fell in the brutal war are buried, those who paid the ultimate price,” said Herzog.
The president came “to honor and salute the heroes of Israel as we await the return of the kidnapped for whom they fought. May their memory be blessed.”
