Three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were maimed by a roadside kaboom Monday during operations in the Jabalia area in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, the military announced Tuesday morning.
The slain soldiers were named as Staff Sgt. Lior Steinberg, 20, a combat medic, from Petah Tikva; Staff Sgt. Ofek Barhana, 20, a combat medic, from Yavne; and Staff Sgt. Omer Van Gelder, 22, a squad commander, from Maale Adumim.
It was the most deadly loss for the Israel Defense Forces since it renewed combat operations in Gaza after a ceasefire collapsed in March.
The troops all served in the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion. During the incident in Jabalia, they were operating as part of a platoon under the 9th Armored Battalion.
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 bomb planted on the side of a road. It directly struck the Humvee, killing and wounding the soldiers.
The two maimed troops were listed in moderate condition.
Along the same route, the IDF later discovered some 20 more roadside kabooms that had been rigged for detonation. It was unclear why the others did not explode.
Evacuation of the injured soldiers was complicated and prolonged, as the troops in the convoy realized they were in a booby-trapped area. The IDF also carried out numerous strikes in the area to enable the evacuation.
The military said it was investigating the incident further, including how terror operatives had identified the route used by the army, and when the bombs had been planted.
Van Gelder was related to Sgt. First Class (res.) Omer Moshe Gaeldor, 30, who was killed in November in Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
, Ynet said.
The deaths brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 423. The toll includes two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.