Three Israeli soldiers died Tuesday when a booby trap was set off during combat operations in a building in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
Three more soldiers were badly wounded in the same incident, the military said, though it provided no further details, Reuters reports.
Israel’s public broadcaster Kan radio said the casualties were injured by an explosive device set off in a building in Rafah.
The men’s death illustrates the the danger to IDF ground troops from having to enter Hamas terrorist-infested buildings instead of bombing them as has been the more recent strategy.
The Times of Israel reports the three slain troops all served in the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion.
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The outlet further noted their deaths bring the toll of slain Israeli soldiers in the IDF’s ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and amid operations along the border to 291.
An officer and two soldiers of the 50th Battalion were seriously wounded and another officer was moderately hurt in the same incident, the military says.
In another incident Tuesday, an officer and a soldier of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 614th Battalion were seriously wounded while fighting terror operatives in northern Gaza.
