IDF: 5 More Soldiers Killed In Fighting In Gaza

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: The IDF announced Friday morning that five more soldiers had been killed the day before during the fierce fighting in Gaza.

The soldiers were identified as:

Captain Beni Weiss, 22, from Haifa, platoon commander in the 195th Battalion, 460th Brigade.

Sgt. Major (res.) Uriah Mash, 41, from Talmon, who fought in the 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade.

Mash, a father of six, is the third casualty from the village of Neriya in the current war.

Sgt. Major (res.) Yehonatan Yosef Brand, 28, from Jerusalem, who fought in the 52nd Battalion, 401st Brigade.

Brand is the son of Rabbi Hanan Brand, a kashrus expert from Yeshivat Merkaz Harav. He had studied for three years in Shavei Hevron yeshiva before serving in the army. Currently he was a 3rd year physiotherapy student at Ariel University.

Sgt. Major (res.) Gil Pishitz, 39, from Harish, a tank driver in the 9th Battalion, 401st Brigade.

Sgt. Major Itai Saadon, from Har Halutz in the Galilee, fell in battle on Friday. He was 21 years old.

On Thursday evening, it was cleared for publication that IDF paratrooper Yair Nifousy was killed in battle against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

Staff Sgt. Nifousy, a 20-year-old resident of Adi, a village in the north, served in the Paratrooper’s 101st Battalion. He was seriously wounded in battle in northern Gaza Wednesday night and succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.

Another soldier from the 101st Battalion was also wounded in the same battle.

Another soldier who fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip was Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, from Yanuh-Jat in the Galilee. Habaka, a Druze battalion commander, is the highest ranking soldier to fall in the current battles in Gaza.

Habka is survived by his wife and son.

May their memory be blessed and may Hashem avenge their blood.