The IDF has announced the deaths of three soldiers, two in a ramming attack in Samaria and one during fighting in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel, 20, from Tel Zion, and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj, 20, from Tel Aviv – infantrymen in the Kfir Brigade's Nahshon Battalion – sustained critical injuries after a terrorist rammed into them outside Nablus on Wednesday night. Both soon after succumbed to their injuries.
A third soldier, Staff Sgt. Yedidya Azugi, 21, of the Paratrooper Brigade's 101st Battalion, was killed while fighting terrorists in Rafah.
Azugi's death brings the death toll of the IDF ground campaign against Hamas to 292.
