Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed on Tuesday battling Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, the military announced Wednesday morning.
The soldiers were named as:
Cpt. Daniel Mimon Toaff, 23, a deputy company commander in the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Moreshet.
Staff Sgt. Agam Naim, 20, a paramedic with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, from Mishmarot.
Staff Sgt. Amit Bakri, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Yoshivia.
Staff Sgt. Dotan Shimon, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Elazar.
Naim is the first female soldier killed during the IDF’s ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Five additional soldiers were wounded in the same incident.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27 now stands at 346, and at 713 on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre, according to official military data.
Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded in the Strip in May.
