The Israel Defense Forces said that five soldiers were killed in a case of friendly fire during operations in Jabalya in northern Gaza.
The five soldiers who were killed on Wednesday included four sergeants and one captain, aged 20 to 22, who all belonged to the Paratroopers Brigade and were killed after a tank operating in the same battalion opened fire, the military acknowledged. Three others were seriously injured.as Captain Roy Beit Yaakov, 22; Sergeant Gilad Arye Boim, 22; Sergeant Daniel Chemu, 20; Sergeant Ilan Cohen, 20; and Sgt. Betzlel David Shashuah, 21.
The IDF “is probing why the shells were fired and if the soldiers were mistaken for armed militants,” the statement added.Israeli forces have recently returned to northern Gaza to fight off It’s not the first time Israel has had to go back to a part of northern or central Gaza it had operated in to reengage with Hamas in areas it had previously cleared.
“Military pressure is necessary but not sufficient to fully defeat Hamas,” U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters this week. “If Israel’s efforts are not accompanied by a political plan for the future of Gaza, and the Palestinian people, the terrorists will keep coming back.”
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