A soldier who was injured fighting in the Gaza Strip has succumbed to his wounds, the IDF announced Sunday afternoon.
He was named as Staff Sgt. Betzalel Zvi Kovach, 20, of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Jerusalem.
Kovach was seriously injured while fighting Hamas terrorists in Beit Hanoun on May 22. Another three soldiers were killed that day, two in a Hamas sniper attack and one by an explosive device in a building.
Kovach's death brings the death toll of the IDF ground campaign in Gaza to 287.
