The IDF reported Friday morning that Staff Sergeant Noam Haba, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade's 202nd Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Since the October 7 terrorist attack, 572 servicemembers have lost their lives, 235 of them since the start of the Gaza ground incursion.
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Fallen Paratrooper Staff Sergeant Noam Haba, 20, of Jerusalem
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
The army also reported that another 202nd Battalion paratrooper was seriously injured in the same battle, and other soldiers were injured in varying degrees. All the soldiers were evacuated for medical treatment at a hospital and their families were informed.
Haba’s uncle, Corporal Yossi Haba, was killed in operational activity in 1989 when his radio antenna struck a power line on a rooftop in Gaza City.
Haba, a 19-year-old Givati Brigade soldier, was buried at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, where his nephew Noam will also be laid to rest at 11pm on Friday.
An obituary on Yossi Haba’s memorial page on the IDF website reads, "When asked by his family about his enlistment in a combat unit, he said that someone must defend the homeland, even though it involves great risk."