[IsraelTimes] Military source says Staff Sgt. Ron Epshtein was killed by shrapnel from artillery shell amid fighting in the area; rocket fired from southern Strip intercepted by air defenses
An IDF soldier was killed during fighting 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip on Thursday, the military announced, bringing Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
in Gaza and military operations along the border with the Strip to 380.
The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Ron Epshtein, 19, of the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion, from Nesher.
According to a military source, Epshtein was killed by shrapnel from an artillery shell that was fired at the Jabalia area amid an ongoing operation there. Another two soldiers were lightly maimed in the incident.
Separately, on Wednesday, a soldier with the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion was seriously maimed in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF said.
The soldier was taken to the hospital for medical treatment, it added.
On Thursday, a rocket launched from the southern Gaza Strip at the Israeli border community of Keren Shalom was intercepted by air defenses, the IDF said.
Sirens sounded in Kerem Shalom amid the incident. There were no reports of injuries.
Inside Gaza, dozens were killed or unaccounted for after a series of Israeli strikes, health authorities, Hamas-linked officials and witnesses said Thursday.
One strike near the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of the territory left "dozens of people" dead or missing, the facility’s director Hossam Abu Safiya told AFP.
Israel has said there has been regular Hamas activity at the northern Gaza hospital.
Another strike was reported in a neighborhood of Gaza City, with civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal saying 22 were dead.
"There is a headless body. We don’t yet know who this is," Moataz al-Arouqi, who lives in the area, told AFP.
The IDF did not immediately issue a comment on the matter.
COGAT, Israel’s civilian coordination agency for the West Bank and Gaza, said Wednesday that some 7 tons (7,200 kilograms) of humanitarian aid was delivered to the Gaza Strip today by eight Jordanian Air Force helicopters for the first time.
In a statement, the IDF said that the transfer was carried out as part of Israel’s "effort to increase the volume and routes of aid entering Gaza."
It said that the aid delivery was comprised of hygiene and sanitation supplies, food, baby formula, medical equipment, and 30 different medications.
The Jordanian military said the aid was being delivered to al-Qarara, an area near Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, where it would then be handed over to the World Food Programme for distribution.
"Code-word today is hunger everywhere in Gaza. Looters are sharing the occupation’s war against the displaced," said Tamer, a Gaza City man now living along 
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