Twenty-four Israeli troopers had been killed throughout intense preventing in Gaza within the final 24 hours, the navy mentioned on Tuesday, marking the best one-day Israeli dying toll since preventing started within the enclave.
Israel launched an offensive final week to seize Khan Younis, which it now says is the principle headquarters of the Hamas militants accountable for the Oct. 7 assaults on southern Israel that killed 1,200 folks, in keeping with Israeli tallies.
Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari mentioned that 21 troopers had been killed when a rocket-propelled grenade hit a tank that was guarding Israeli forces. At the identical time, an explosion occurred in two, two-storey buildings the place forces had planted explosives as a way to destroy the buildings. The explosion triggered their collapse onto the Israeli troopers.
“We are nonetheless finding out and investigating the main points of the occasion and the explanations for the explosion,” Hagari instructed an early morning press briefing.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog launched a press release, on what he mentioned was an “unbearably tough morning”
“On behalf of the whole nation, I console the households and pray for the therapeutic of the wounded. Even on this unhappy and tough morning, we’re sturdy and do not forget that collectively we are going to win,” he mentioned.