The IDF reported on Sunday the deaths of Capt. Yogev Pazy, 22, a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade’s 90th Battalion, from Giv’ot Bar, and Staff Sgt. Noam Eitan, 21, a fighter in the same battalion, from Hadera, who fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
The soldiers were killed during a clash with terrorists in Jabaliya. Another soldier was seriously wounded, and his family has been notified.
Pazy is the nephew of Knesset member and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot whose son Gal was also killed in the war in December. Sergeant Maor Cohen Eisenkot, another nephew of Eisenkot's, fell a day after his son.
On Saturday, the military reported that Sergeant Ori Nisanovich, 21, from Jerusalem, a soldier in the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion, fell during combat in southern Lebanon. Since the start of the war, 797 soldiers have fallen in battle.
IDF forces operate in northern Gaza
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The fighting in northern Gaza, including in Jabaliya, where Hamas terrorists were entrenched, has been going on for the past weeks. Although many locals have fled the sector after evacuation calls from the IDF and safe passages out of fighting zones, some still remain.
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