Captain Noam Ravid, 23, from Shaarei Tikva, an officer in the Yahalom combat engineering unit, and Staff Sergeant Yahali Sharor, 20, from Omer, a fighter in the unit, fell in battle in southern Gaza Strip, the IDF spokesperson announced. They were killed during combat operations in Rafah, with two additional soldiers sustaining serious and moderate injuries. The force was hit by an explosion inside a tunnel shaft in a building they were searching in the Jenina neighborhood. The cause of the explosion was likely an explosive device that the force failed to identify during preliminary tunnel inspections.