Sergeant Daniel Aviv Haim Sofer, 19, and Corporal Tal Dror, 19, were killed in a drone attack from Iraq in northern Israel on Thursday, the IDF announced Friday evening.
Sgt. Haim Sofer, from Ashkelon, was a cadet in a specialized communications officer course in Battalion 13 in the Golani Brigade.
Cpl. Dror, from Jerusalem, was a communications soldier in the 13th Battalion in the Golani Brigade.
In the incident where the two soldiers fell, an additional soldier and a non-commissioned officer from the 13th Battalion were severely wounded and were evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
There are additional reports by Israeli media claiming that up to 21 soldiers were lightly wounded in the same drone attack.
Additional fallen soldier
A day earlier, the IDF announced that Captain Ben Zion Pelach, 21, from Nitzanei Oz, fell in battle in southern Lebanon. Pelach was a soldier in Battalion 202 of the Paratroopers Brigade.
The IDF began its invasion of Lebanon on Tuesday following a year of back-and-forth rockets and missiles between Israel and Hezbollah.
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