Four more soldiers from the Kfir brigade were killed in the battle in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF reports new casualties: four soldiers from the 92nd Shimshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade were killed in a battle near Jebaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Among the dead were Staff Sergeant Ofir Eliyahu, Staff Sergeant Or Katz, Staff Sergeant Gary Zolat and Staff Sergeant Naveh Asulin. All of them were posthumously awarded a new military rank.

For more than a year of war, the Israeli army lost 787 soldiers and officers in battles in various parts of the country. Also in Jebaliya, reserve major, squad leader in the Lothar special forces, Itamar Friedman, was killed. He was married and left two children, worked at a school named after. Goldwater in Eilat.

The fighting in Jebaliya has been going on for more than a month. The day before it was reported that 1,140 terrorists were killed and 1,057 were arrested there. As the fighting continues, IDF forces continue to carry out retaliatory strikes and maintain security in the region.