IDF identifies two additional soldiers killed in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases the names of two more soldiers killed in last night’s roadside bomb attack in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, in which five troops were killed.
They are:
Sgt. First Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, 28, of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, from Haifa.
Staff Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian, 20, of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Two soldiers were named earlier. The name of the fifth soldier killed in the incident will be released later.
5 IDF soldiers killed, 14 injured by roadside bomb in northern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Five Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded by a roadside bomb in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun last night, the military announces.
Two of the slain soldiers are named as:
Staff Sgt. Meir Shimon Amar, 20, from Jerusalem
Sgt. Moshe Nissim Frech, 20, from Jerusalem.
They both served with the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
The names of the other soldiers are set to be released later.
According to an initial IDF probe, the infantry soldiers were hit by a bomb planted on the side of a road shortly after 10 p.m. on Monday, during ground operations in Beit Hanoun. The soldiers were operating on foot, and were not inside a vehicle.
During attempts to extract the casualties, the forces came under fire in the area, according to the probe.
Among the 14 wounded, two are listed in serious condition.
The military says the area where the attack took place was targeted from the air ahead of the troops’ operations in the area.
The Netzah Yehuda soldiers were operating under the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, as part of an offensive with the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade in Beit Hanoun, aimed at clearing the area of terror operatives who remain holed up there.
IDF says dozens of targets hit in Gaza strikes; terror infrastructure destroyed in ground ops
[IsraelTimes] Dozens of targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the Gaza Strip over the past day, including dozens of operatives, weapon depots, observation posts, and other buildings used by terror groups, the military says in a daily update.
The strikes come as five IDF divisions, made up of tens of thousands of troops, continue to operate across Gaza.
During ground operations, the IDF, says troops killed numerous operatives and destroyed Hamas infrastructure, including tunnels, buildings used for terror, anti-tank launch posts, and observation posts. 
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