An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, the military announced.
The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Uriel Peretz, 23, of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Beitar Illit.
Three additional soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident in the Beit Hanoun area.
On Sunday, Staff Sgt. Yuval Shoham, 22, of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 9th Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed in action in northern Gaza. Following an inquiry into the incident, the IDF said that he died due to an “operational accident in a tank.”
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27, 2023, stands at 393, and at 825 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.
