Eight Israeli soldiers were killed in theexplosion of the Namer armored vehicle, while they were engaged in a raid in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip
This was announced by the army of the Jewish State, which for the moment has identified only one soldier: 23-year-old Captain Wassem Mahmoud. The families of the other seven soldiers have been informed and their names will be made public later. It’s about thethe episode with the heaviest toll for the IDF in the enclave since January.
According to an initial investigation by the IDF, the episode occurred around 5 in the morning. The eight soldiers were killed inside a Namer armored vehicle while conducting a nighttime offensive against Hamas in the northwestern areas of Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, during which troops from the 401st Armored Brigade killed around 50 gunmen .
The Namer was the fifth or sixth vehicle in the convoy and at one point was hit by a large explosion. It is not clear whether it was caused by a bomb planted on the road, whether Hamas operatives approached the vehicle with an explosive device and placed it directly on the vehicle.
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