An Israel Defense Forces soldier hurt last month battling Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip succumbed to his wounds on Friday, the military announced.
Cpt. Yarden Zakay, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Hadera, was seriously wounded on Sept. 17.
In the same incident, four other soldiers were killed: Cpt. Daniel Mimon Toaff, 23, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Moreshet; Staff Sgt. Agam Naim, 20, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, from Mishmarot; Staff Sgt. Amit Bakri, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Yoshivia; and Staff Sgt. Dotan Shimon, 21, of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, from Elazar.
The troops were struck by a bomb while searching a building in Rafah.
Five additional soldiers were wounded in the attack.
On Tuesday, the military announced the deaths of five more IDF soldiers killed fighting in the northern Gaza Strip and Southern Lebanon.
The soldiers slain in Gaza were named as Cpt. Yehonatan Joni Keren, 22, from Moledet; Staff Sgt. Nisim Meytal, 20, from Hadera; Staff Sgt. Aviv Gilboa, 21, from Neve Tzuf; and Staff Sgt. Naor Haimov, 22, from Rosh Ha’ayin. All four served in the IDF’s elite Multidimensional Unit.
Also, Master Sgt. (res.) Yedidia Bloch, 31, from Mevo Horon, died of wounds sustained last week while fighting Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon. Bloch served in the Battalion 7155 of the 55th Paratroopers Brigade.
On Monday night, an IDF soldier wounded earlier this month in the northern Gaza Strip succumbed to his wounds.
Maj. Guy Yaacov Nezri, 25, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion, from Atlit, was seriously hurt in Jabalia on Oct. 19.
The IDF death toll in Gaza since the start of the ground operation there on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 366, while the figure on all fronts since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre is 778.
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.
