Master Sergeant (res.) Shmuel Gad Rahamim, 31, of Givat Ze’ev, who was severely wounded Tuesday in an explosion of an IDF grenade at an outpost in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, has succumbed to his injuries, the IDF announced on Saturday night.
With his death, Israel has counted 2,000 fatalities since the outbreak of the war with the October 7 massacre. Some 915 IDF soldiers have fallen in the war. Rahamim served as a fighter in the Southern Brigade's 7015th Battalion.
Two other reservists were also wounded in the serious incident, which occurred exactly two years after the October 7 massacre — one critically and one moderately.
On Friday, the IDF reported that Sergeant First Class (res.) Michael Mordechai Nachmani, 26, from Dimona, a technology-and-maintenance soldier in the 614th Combat Engineering Battalion, was killed in northern Gaza by Hamas sniper fire.
The shooting took place on the outskirts of Gaza City's built-up Shati refugee camp, coinciding with the start of the withdrawal from the area Thursday — a withdrawal that was completed Friday at noon, when the ceasefire with Hamas under the hostage deal officially began.
Marking two years since the Hamas-led October 7 massacre and the start of the Iron Swords War, the Defense Ministry this week released updated casualty data detailing the human cost of the war.
According to the figures, current as of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,152 Israeli servicemembers have been killed since the war began in 2023. Nearly half of the fallen—487 soldiers, or 42%—were under the age of 21. At the other end of the spectrum, 141 of the fallen were over 40.
The toll on Israeli families has also been devastating. In the past two years, more than 6,500 people have joined the national circle of bereavement. Among them are 1,973 bereaved parents, 351 widows, 885 orphans and 3,481 siblings who have lost a brother or sister in uniform.