Last week, four soldiers were killed in a building collapse in Khan Yunis. New details that emerged revealed that after the troops had cleared the first floor and declared it secure, they began ascending to the second floor. Upon identifying a suspicious object on the upper level, the team commander decided to summon the Yahalom Unit (elite combat engineering) to further investigate before taking any additional action.
The commander pulled all the soldiers back, remained on the staircase with his radio operator to provide cover, and called in the Yahalom soldiers. Shortly thereafter, an explosive device detonated.
The type of explosive and the cause of detonation remain undetermined. A full investigation will be completed once the wounded soldiers have recovered, and the findings reported thus far are from a preliminary inquiry. A more in-depth investigation is underway, from which lessons will be drawn for ongoing combat operations, according to the IDF.
3 June 2025
- Master Sgt. (res.) Alon Farkas, 27, of Kibbutz Kabri - 6646th Reconnaissance Battalion, 646th (Marom Foxes) Reserve Paratroopers Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-reservist-killed-another-seriously-wounded-in-gaza-city-fighting/
According to an initial IDF probe, a Palestinian gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on the paratroopers who were operating in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood.
The gunman ambushed the troops from an alley and managed to flee following the attack, which seriously wounded another reservist, according to the military.
In a separate incident in the nearby town of Jabalia on Tuesday evening, Hamas used a drone to drop an explosive or a grenade on troops, according to the military.
The explosion moderately wounded two soldiers of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and lightly injured a Shin Bet officer.
A day earlier, three troops were killed in Jabalia when they were hit by a roadside bomb.
These:
2 June 2025
- Staff Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, 22, of Ma’ale Adumim - Squad Commander, 9th Battalion, 84th (Givati) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Staff Sgt. Ofek Barhana, 20, of Yavneh - Combat Medic, Rotem Company, 9th Battalion, 84th (Givati) Infantry Brigade
- Staff Sgt. Lior Steinberg, 20, of Petah Tikva – Combat Medic, Rotem Company, 9th Battalion, 84th (Givati) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, the five troops were in a Humvee in Jabalia, escorting an army fire engine that had entered Gaza to extinguish an armored personnel carrier that caught fire due to a technical issue.
On the way out of Jabalia, the convoy was hit by an explosive device planted on the side of a road. It directly struck the Humvee, killing and wounding the soldiers.
The two wounded troops were listed in moderate condition.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1swrr3fxg
The second of five siblings, Ofek was remembered by his younger sister as someone who kept his family calm. “We spoke a week ago. He never told us too much—he always tried to reassure us and our parents. He said there was no danger. He wasn’t afraid of the fighting in Gaza. He believed in himself and his professionalism as a soldier.”
20 May 2025
- Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu, 20, of Holon - 82nd Battalion, 7th Armored Brigade. Fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldier was killed after a building he was in collapsed, following the detonation of an explosive device planted there by terror operatives.
19 May 2025
- Sgt. Yosef Yehuda Chira, 22, of Harasha - 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, 401st (Iron Tracks) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
No information.
8 May 2025
- Staff Sgt. Yam Frid, 21, of Moshav Sal'it - Reconnaissance Unit, Golani Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Sgt. Yishai Elyakim Urbach, 20, of Zichron Ya'akov - 605th Engineering Battalion, 188th (Barak) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-idf-soldiers-killed-six-wounded-in-southern-gaza-fighting/
In the first incident, Hamas operatives fired an RPG at a building in Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood, where troops were stationed. The building partially collapsed on the soldiers, killing Urbach and wounding two others, including one seriously and one moderately.
During the second incident, which took place some two hours later in the same area, an armored personnel carrier was hit by an explosive device, killing Frid and wounding four others, including three soldiers — among them two officers — listed in serious condition.
In statements on Telegram, Hamas claimed its operatives ambushed an Israeli 12-man force inside a house in the Tanur neighborhood in the eastern Rafah area (adjacent to Jenina) with two RPGs, and set off an explosive device next to troops nearby.
4 May 2025
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Dejen Daniel Sahalo, 41, of Rehovot - Engineering Vehicles Operator, 5067th Engineering Battalion, Combat Engineering Corps. Fell in the line of duty in a vehicular accident during operational activities near the Gaza Strip.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjxtryille
IDF reservist Dejen Daniel Sahalo killed in operational accident near Gaza border Sahalo, 41, a combat engineer soldier from Rehovot, was killed after the military truck he was riding in apparently overturned near the Gaza border; IDF is investigating the incident
3 May 2025
- Captain Noam Ravid, 23, of Sha'arei Tikva - Yahalom Special Operations Unit, Combat Engineering Corps. Fell in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, 20, of Omer - Yahalom Special Operations Unit, Combat Engineering Corps. Fell in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
Two IDF soldiers were killed and two were wounded in an explosion in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in southern Gaza’s Rafah Saturday, the military announced.
The slain troops were named as Cpt. Noam Ravid, 23 from Sha’arei Tikva and Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, 20, from Omer. Both served in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, the military said Sunday.
According to an initial IDF probe, the Yahalom soldiers, operating under the Golani Brigade, were scanning the entrance to a tunnel inside a building when they were suddenly hit by an explosion.
One of the wounded soldiers was listed in serious condition, while the other was moderately hurt.
In a separate incident on Saturday, a reservist with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 7007th Battalion was seriously wounded in northern Gaza. The circumstances of his injury are still under investigation, the military said.
Also on Saturday, two soldiers of the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion were wounded, one moderately and one lightly, in a blast in an army encampment in the area of Gaza City’s eastern Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods.
According to an initial IDF investigation, the blast was apparently caused by a tank shell that detonated prematurely when it was being fired. Another possibility being looked into was that a mortar struck the area.
1 May 2025
- Sgt. Niv Dayag, 19, of Ramat Hasharon - 890th Battalion, Paratroopers Brigade. Killed in a vehicular accident during operational activities on the Golan Heights.
According to first responders, the army jeep that the soldiers were in hit a guardrail, flipped over, and caught fire. The military said the incident was under further investigation.
25 April 2025
- Cpt. Ido Voloch, 21 of Jerusalem – Platoon Commander, 46th Battalion, 401st (Iron Tracks) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, during operations in Shejaiya, troops of the Jerusalem Reserve Infantry Brigade and members of the police’s Yamas unit set up an ambush in a building.
Terror operatives arrived at the ambush site, and the Israeli forces opened fire on them at around 4:40 p.m. During the exchange of fire, the Yamas officer was killed.
Rescue forces were then dispatched to the scene to extract the troops at the ambush site. Fifteen minutes later, an army Humvee that tried to reach the area was hit by RPG fire, and one soldier was moderately wounded.
Nearly an hour later, several IDF tanks, part of the rescue forces, came under RPG fire from the operatives in Shejaiya. One of the RPGs killed Voloch and lightly wounded another soldier.
An hour after that, two reservists of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 7007th Battalion were moderately wounded by RPG fire and light arms in the same area.
24 April 2025
- Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri, 26, of Beit Hashmonai - 79th Battalion, 14th (Machatz) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-soldier-killed-three-wounded-during-fighting-in-northern-gaza/
The Israel Defense Forces later named the slain soldier as Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri, 26, a tank driver in the 14th Reserve Armored Brigade’s 79th Battalion, from Beit Hashmonai.
In the same incident, a reservist in the 79th Battalion and an officer in the elite Yahalom combat engineering were seriously wounded. Another reservist, in the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade’s 8239th Battalion, was moderately hurt.
According to an initial IDF probe, Cafri, who was outside his tank, was hit by sniper fire in the Beit Hanoun area, close to one of the military’s posts in the Israeli-held buffer zone.
The other troops next to him were hit by anti-tank fire launched by the terror operatives, according to the initial investigation.
19 April 2025
- Warrant Officer G'haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, of Rahat – Tracker, Northern Brigade of the Gaza Division. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1y00cmfygx
According to a preliminary IDF investigation, Hamas terrorists were believed to have emerged from an undiscovered tunnel shaft and opened fire with an anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), hitting a military vehicle carrying soldiers. The terrorists then detonated an improvised explosive device, killing Alnasasra and wounding three others.
6 February 2025
- Staff Sgt. Nachman Refael Ben Ami, 20, of Eilat - 51st Battalion, Golani Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Nadav Cohen, 21, of Moshav Beit Hanan - 51st Battalion, Golani Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and eight were wounded when a crane used by the military collapsed on them overnight in the Gaza Strip, the army announced Thursday morning.
According to an initial IDF probe, strong winds that swept across the region caused a crane operated by the military to fall over during the night, crashing down on the soldiers.
4 February 2025
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Avraham Tzvi Tzivka Friedman, 43, of Kibbutz Ein HaNetziv - 8211th Battalion, 421st “Ephraim” Territorial Brigade. Fell during operational activity in the Menashe Brigade deployment area.
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ofer Yung, 39, of Tel Aviv – Squad Commander, 8211th Battalion, 421st “Ephraim” Territorial Brigade. Fell during operational activity in the Menashe Brigade deployment area.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-840563
IDF Warr. Ofc. (Res.) Ofer Yung, 39, and Warr. Ofc. (Res.) Avraham Tzvi Tzvika Friedman, 43, were killed, and several were wounded in a Palestinian terror attack at an outpost near the village of Tayasir, north of the Jordan Valley on Tuesday.
The incident started around 6:00 a.m., though initial reviews suggest that the terrorist arrived in the area in the middle of the night, waiting for daybreak to attack.
When two of the soldiers were about to exit the outpost and opened the door to the outpost, the terrorist opened fire on both of them, killing one of them.
Next, the terrorist took up a position at the entrance and opened fire on the other nine soldiers inside the outpost.
The soldiers, though caught by surprise, started to return fire both from within the outpost as well as from the outpost watch tower.
During the gunfight, the IDF had a drone nearby ,providing some intelligence.
However, the terrorist had succeeded in getting to such close proximity to the IDF soldiers that the drone could not fire on him, lest it strike the soldiers as well.
Military officials have criticized the security conditions at the checkpoint and the troops' ability to protect themselves.
13 January 2025
- Cpt. Yair Yaakov Shushani, 23, of Ma'alot-Tarshiha - Team Commander, Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Yahav Hadar, 20, of Kfar Tavor - Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Guy Karmiel, 20, of Gedera - Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Yoav Feffer, 19, of Herzliya - Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Aviel Wiseman, 21, of Poria Illit - Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/five-soldiers-killed-10-wounded-in-northern-gaza-idf-says/
On Monday evening, the IDF said it had presented the families of the five soldiers with an initial probe of the deadly incident, which found that the team of troops from the Nahal Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit had set out on Monday morning for a mission in the Beit Hanoun area.
They were inside a building and preparing to use explosives for engineering activity when the explosives detonated. As a result of the blast, the building the troops were in collapsed, killing the five soldiers.
11 January 2025
- Sgt. Eliav Astuker, 19, of Ashdod - 931st Battalion, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Alexander Fedorenko, 37, of Bat Yam - 79th Battalion, 14th (Machatz) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip
- 1st Sgt. Danila Diakov, 21, of Ma’ale Adumim - 931st Battalion, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Sgt. Yahav Maayan, 19, of Modi’in - 931st Battalion, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers were hit by an explosive device set off by terror operatives, as well as gunfire in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1lnwhepjx
The troops were killed by the detonation of a powerful explosive device targeting a command vehicle. The unit was traveling along an administrative route in Beit Hanoun, where the brigade has been operating in recent weeks. Five additional soldiers were injured in the incident, including two in serious condition.
The route was supposed to be under full operational control, having been cleared at the start of the operation in the city, located west of Sderot. The unit traveled along the route in an unarmored Humvee, accompanied by other light vehicles in the convoy, including one carrying the deputy commander of the Nahal Brigade who was unharmed and led evacuation efforts.
During the incident, terrorists opened fire at the unit in the field, though it’s possible the fire was a result of friendly fire. The scene was declared a mass-casualty event.
8 January 2025
- 1st Sgt. Nevo Fisher, 20, of Bruchin - 46th Battalion, 401st (Iron Tracks) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Matityahu Ya’akov Perel, 22, of Beit El - 46th Battalion, 401st (Iron Tracks) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- 1st Sgt. Kenew Kasa, 22, of Beit Shemesh - 46th Battalion, 401st (Iron Tracks) Armored Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1ptdi28jg
Three IDF soldiers were killed Wednesday when a tank of the 401st Brigade's 46th Battalion hit a booby-trapped pit in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, causing a large explosion, the military said.
7 January 2025
- 1st Sgt. Ido Samiach, 20, of Ganei Tikva – Team Sergeant, Nahal Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-836476
During an operation in Beit Hanoun, terrorists opened fire, and Samiach was killed. The IDF is still investigating the full circumstances of the incident.
No update.
6 January 2025
- Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, of Eli – Deputy Company Commander, 932nd Battalion, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
- Maj. Dvir Zion Revah, 28, of Jerusalem - Company Commander, 932nd Battalion, 933rd (Nahal) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-836476
On Monday, Capt. Shiknazi and Maj. Revah were killed by an anti-tank missile strike. Two soldiers from the same battalion were seriously wounded during the same incident.
30 December 2024
- Sgt. Uriel Peretz, 23, of Beitar Illit - 97th (Netzah Yehuda) Battalion, 900th (Kfir) Infantry Brigade. Fell in combat in the northern Gaza Strip.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkzitseuyx
Peretz was killed by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas terrorists at a building in Beit Hanoun where the force was stationed.
Peretz was killed and eight others were wounded, including three in serious condition. The other five were listed in good and moderate condition.
I stopped there. By all means, go back further and find me the first case of a soldier who wasn’t a sitting duck.
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