Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in action in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Sunday.
Capt. Yogev Pazy, 22, from Giv’ot Bar, and Staff Sgt. Noam Eitan, 21, from Hadera, were killed in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the IDF. They were members of the Nachshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, where Pazy served as a platoon commander, the statement noted.
The Ynet news outlet reported that Pazy is a nephew of Gadi Eizenkot, a former chief of staff of the IDF and a Knesset Member for Benny Gantz’s National Unity Party. Pazy is the third relative of Eizenkot to die during the war after his son, Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eizenkot, and his nephew, Sgt. Maor Cohen Eizenkot, were killed in December.
Earlier on Sunday, the army announced that IDF Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Idan Kenan, 21, also of the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion, was killed by sniper fire in Beit Lahiya.
Sunday’s deaths brought the number of soldiers killed in action in Gaza since the start of ground operations there on Oct. 27, 2023, to 376.
On Saturday night, the IDF announced the death of Sgt. Ori Nisanovich, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Jerusalem, who was killed during an exchange of fire with a Hezbollah terrorist in Southern Lebanon.
The death toll among Israeli troops on all fronts since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border massacre now stands at 798, according to official figures.
Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel 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 there in May.
