Tank Explosion in Gaza Claimed 4 IDF Lives
Staff-Sergeant Uri Lamed, age 20, from Tel Mond, Sergeant Gadi Cotal, aged 20, from Kibbutz Afikim, and Sergeant Amit Arye Regev from Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut, were the names of the four soldiers who were cleared for publication.
Shortly before the incident, at 5:00 a.m., the battalion's forces had returned to the post from nighttime operations in the area, and by 6:00 a.m., the soldiers were in "dawn alert," with commanders conducting a situational assessment.
At around 6 a.m., a cell comprising three terrorists arrived on the outskirts of Sheikh Radwan, west of Jabalya in northern Gaza, close to where the Nahal Brigade's 50th Battalion was stationed. The tank was stationed in a defensive position near the IDF's post.
According to the initial investigation, the crew inside the tank was not asleep during the incident, and was reported to be alert and conducting scans of the area.
Two terrorists were hit during the exchange of fire with IDF soldiers.
The deaths of the four soldiers raise the toll of soldiers' deaths to 904 since the start of the Swords of Iron War.
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