Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on July 2 that one of its soldiers was killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.
The slain soldier was a tank crew member in the 82nd Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade. The battalion operates Merkava Mk.4M main battle tanks.
According to the IDF, Michalovitch was killed in combat in the northern part of the Strip. A tank commander and another soldier from the same battalion were seriously wounded in the same incident. The military didn’t provide any further details.
In a separate incident that also took place in northern Gaza, a soldier from the Egoz unit of the Commando Brigade was also seriously wounded.
Also on July 2, two rockets were launched from northern Gaza, triggering sirens in the city of Sderot and the nearby town of Ibim in southern Israel. Both projectiles were intercepted by the IDF air defenses. No impacts or injuries were reported by Hebrew media.
The latest death brought the number of Israeli troops killed since the start of the large-scale offensive against the Hamas Movement in Gaza, codenamed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” to 23.
The IDF has been facing increasing resistance in Gaza, not only from Hamas, but also from other Palestinian armed factions.
In recent days, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad released two videos, one showing a mortar attack on an IDF gathering in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and another showing an attack with an explosive device on an unidentified Israeli military vehicle in Gaza City in the northern part of the Strip.
Israel launched Operation Gideon’s Chariots last month after calling up tens of thousands of reservists. The IDF said that it wants to occupy 75 percent of Gaza within the first two months of the operation. More than two million Palestinians will be crammed in three isolated small zones in the southern, central and northern parts of the Strip.
Several recent reports suggest that a new ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal may be near. United States President Donlad Trump himself said that a new proposal was presented to Hamas, which rules the Strip. But even if an agreement was reached, the IDF will likely resume its operations later.
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lol
die jews, die!
the idf could try crying and comparing themselves to anne frank’s big nose to get sympathy
and submit a sniveling howler of a complaint with a ww2 vintage ball point pen.
why do russians think they are better than jews? my spirit told once that the russians are beastmen not worth living in our new europe . why operation barbarossa? look at the russians, an ugly pale bastard race with blunt skulls infected with zionist blood. marx, lenin, stalin,trotsky, putin and the bolsheviks, all russian zionists.zionism is even a russian invention and the russias vote for israel in 1948.
zionism is inherently a british invention.
it was pushed by the british jews long before the 1900,s and when they gained power in the uk the balfor agreement was set up/ but do all the nazis who post here know that herr hitler long before russias vote in 1933 had the haavara agreement that rich jews pay him for sending 60,000 jews to palestine ?
this enabled hitler to increase political power and for those rich jews and their organisation to help finance hitler,s building of arms factories -at that time he was also helped by rich english jewish bankers and rich americans including henry ford the automobile magnate.
10,000 gazans will be eliminated in retaliation…heheheh