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Three soldiers killed in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 828

The slain soldiers were named as Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, from Eli in Samaria; Maj. Dvir Zion Revah, 28, from Jerusalem; and Sgt. 1st Class Ido Samiach, 20, from Ganei Tikva.

Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, was killed in action in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 6, 2025. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, was killed in action in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 6, 2025. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip over the past two days, according to the military.

Sgt. 1st Class Ido Samiach, 20, from Ganei Tikva, a team sergeant in the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, was killed on Tuesday.

Two soldiers were slain on Monday. They were named as Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, of the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, from Eli in Samaria; and Maj. Dvir Zion Revah, 28, from Jerusalem, a company commander in the 932nd Battalion of the Nahal Brigade.

Two additional troops were seriously wounded in the same incident in Beit Hanoun, according to the IDF.

The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 396, and at 828 on all fronts since the Hamas-led massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.

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.

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