The IDF announced Saturday the death of a Nahal Brigade officer Lt. Col. Roee Yohay Yosef Mordechay who was killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip over the weekend.
Mordechay, 31, from Tel Aviv was appointed to be the next commander of Nahal’s 50th Battalion before he was killed. His death raises the toll of fallen troops in the ground offensive to 176.
Another soldier of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion was seriously wounded in the same battle, the IDF says.