The IDF announced the deaths of two soldiers in the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza on Monday.
Sergeant First Class (res.) Alon Kleinman and Sergeant First Class Adi Eldor, both serving in the Maglan unit of the commando brigade, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
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Kleinman, aged 21, hailing from Nofo, was a reserve fighter in the Maglan unit. Eldor, also 21 years old, was from Haifa.
In a statement the IDF expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the fallen soldiers.
Their families have been notified, and the IDF pledges to stand by them during this difficult time.
Professort Miki Halbertal, director of the Rambam Medical Center: "The Rambam family received this morning with great sadness the terrible news of the death of the late Adi Eldor, a Maglan fighter. The news of the death of the late Adi, the son of Dr. Liron Eldor, a Rambam physician, and the grandson of Prof. Yosef Itzkovitz, who was a senior department manager at Rambam and the father of the field of fertility and stem cells in Israel – breaks our hearts."
With the two latest fallen, the death toll among IDF soldiers since the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza has risen to 229.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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