Posted on 06/26/2025 6:29:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Initial probe finds Hamas operative threw bomb inside combat engineering vehicle in Khan Younis; soldier seriously hurt in separate incident; Katz says troops fought heroically
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Top row, left to right: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, Sgt. Ronen Shapiro; Bottom row, left to right: Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, Sgt. Shahar Manoav, and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov. The IDF announced that the seven soldiers were killed amid fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
Seven soldiers were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip after an armored vehicle they were in was hit by an explosive device on Tuesday, marking one of the deadliest incidents for the Israel Defense Forces in months.
The soldiers were named on Wednesday as Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, 21, from Kfar Yona; Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, 20, from Rehovot; Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, 20, from Elyakhin; Sgt. Ronen Shapiro, 19, from Mazkeret Batya; Sgt. Shahar Manoav, 21, from Ashkelon; Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, 20, from Eshhar; and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov, 21, from Kiryat Yam.
They all served with the 605th Combat Engineering Battalion.
The deaths raised Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 440.
According to an initial IDF probe, during operations in Khan Younis, a Hamas terror group operative ran up to the soldiers’ Puma armored combat engineering vehicle (CEV), and dropped a bomb into an open hatch.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
I wonder why they had an open hatch in the middle of Gaza.
No AC..................
And 7 people in one vehicle. It gets hot and runs out of oxygen.
Since the time of the Romans, combat engineers make the difference in battles and wars. These young men were part of that legacy and died heroically at the front.
This is all the fault of the stupid IDF leadership, which is consumed with “minimizing civilian casualties” (Gaza terrorists and their Jew-hating families), instead of minimizing Israeli casualties. God told Joshua to kill every men, woman and child. The people of Gaza are worse than Jericho, or even Sodom. Stop protecting them!
WIPE THESE PEOPLE OFF THE FING MAP
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