The IDF announced on Wednesday morning the names of four soldiers who fell in combat in the Gaza Strip.
Staff Sergeant Agam Naim, Staff Sergeant Dotan Shimon, Staff Sergeant Amit Bakri, and Captain Daniel Mimon Toaff were killed while fighting in southern Gaza.
St.-Sgt. Naim, 20, served as a paramedic in the 52nd Battalion. St.-Sgt. Shimon, 21, St.-Sgt. Bakri, 21, and Captain Mimon Toaff, 23, served in the Shaked Battalion in the Givati Brigade.
Five soldiers wounded
In the same incident in which Staff Sergeant Naim and the three Shaked Battalion soldiers were killed, an an officer and two soldiers were severely wounded.
A further two soldiers from the battalion were moderately wounded, the IDF added.
Officer wounded from RPG fire
Additionally, an officer from the Givati Reconnaissance Unit sustained severe wounds from RPG fire while fighting in southern Gaza.
Those wounded were successfully evacuated from Gaza and transferred to a hospital, the military noted.
According to the IDF’s tally, the death of the four IDF soldiers were killed raises the total of soldiers killed on or since October 7 of last year to 713.
A total of 346 of this number were killed since the start of the military’s ground operations in the Strip on October 27, according to the tally.
“A very sad morning. Four flowers—a heroic paramedic and three brave fighters—have fallen, and their comrades were injured yesterday in the fierce battles in the Gaza Strip,” President Isaac Herzog wrote on X/Twitter following the incident. “I embrace their families and loved ones. May the memory of Staff Sergeant Agam Naim, Staff Sergeant Amit Bakri, Captain Daniel Mimon Toaff, and Staff Sergeant Dotan Shimon be blessed and forever held in our hearts.”
בוקר עצוב מאד. ארבעה פרחים – פרמדיקית גיבורה ושלושה לוחמים אמיצים נפלו, וחבריהם נפצעו אתמול בקרבות הקשים ברצועת עזה. מחבק את משפחותיהם ואהוביהם. יהי זכרם של סמ״ר אגם נעים, סמ״ר עמית באכרי, סרן דניאל מימון טואף וסמ״ר דותן שמעון ברוך ונצור בליבנו לעד.
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) September 18, 2024
“A difficult and painful morning when we were informed of the death of the late Capt. Daniel Mimon Toaff, the late Staff Sergeant Agam Naim, the late Staff Sergeant Amit Bakri and the late Staff Sergeant Dotan Shimon,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote on X. “It is our duty to do everything to be worthy of them and to continue the fight until victory, to ensure the security of Israel’s citizens in the south and north, and to bring the hostages home. Together, with God’s help, until victory.”
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