Two IDF soldiers killed in action in Gaza

Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Tuesday night.

By JNS

Staff Sgt. Roei Wolf, 20, from Ramat Gan, and Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz, 20, from Modi’in, both served in the Givati Infantry Brigade’s reconnaissance unit.

Two other soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident. Their families have been informed, the IDF said.

The Israel Air Force struck more than 300 Hamas targets and killed “numerous” terrorists in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including a senior commander, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday morning.

Among the sites targeted were underground anti-tank missile and rocket launching positions and “military” compounds, the army said.

Israeli ground forces also engaged and destroyed terrorist cells, and provided real-time direction for airstrikes on Hamas forces and infrastructure.

Israeli forces have been conducting “fierce battles” against Hamas “deep in the Gaza Strip” in recent hours, the IDF said on Tuesday afternoon.

Meanwhile, four Israelis sustained wounds of varying degrees when terrorist rockets fired from the Gaza Strip struck the southern coastal city of Ashdod.

Magen David Adom paramedics treated a 50-year-old man in serious condition with shrapnel injuries, and three men aged 64, 46 and 35 lightly wounded by glass shards.

All four victims were evacuated to the city’s Assuta Medical Center, MDA said. The organization was searching the area for additional casualties.

Earlier on Tuesday, a minor suffered shrapnel injuries when a rocket hit the community of Bnei Darom, just outside Ashdod, Israel’s Channel 12 said.