Four soldiers killed in Gaza, bringing IDF wartime toll to 835
Four Israel Defence Forces soldiers were killed battling Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military announced.
Soldiers killed in action in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 11, 2025: (L-R) Sgt. Yahav Maayan, Sgt. Maj. (res.) Alexander Fedorenko, Staff Sgt. Danila Diakov, Sgt. Eliav Astuker. Credit: IDF.
The slain troops were named as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Alexander Fedorenko, 37, from Bat Yam; Staff Sgt. Danila Diakov, 21, from Maale Adumim; Sgt. Yahav Maayan, 19, from Modiin; and Sgt. Eliav Astuker, 19, from Ashdod.
Six additional troops were wounded in the same incident, two of them seriously.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the ground incursion in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27, 2023, now stands at 403, and at 835 on all fronts since the Hamas-led terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Additionally, Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June, and civilian defense contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded there in May.
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