Captain Ido Voloch, an officer in the Armored Corps, was killed in battle while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Saturday.
Additionally, Sergeant Neta Yitzhak Kahane, an officer in the Border Police, was killed in battle while fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Police announced.
Cpt. Ido Voloch, 21, from Jerusalem, served as an armored corps officer and platoon commander in the 46th Battalion of the 401st Brigade.
Sgt. Kahane, 19, from Eitan, served in the Border Police South undercover unit (Mista’aravim).
According to the IDF’s tally, their deaths raise the total of soldiers killed on or since October 7 of last year to 849.
Some 409 of this number were killed since the start of the military’s ground operations in the Strip on October 27.
Kahane joined the IDF’s Givati Brigade in December 2023 and was later transferred to the Border Police. Following his transfer, he completed his undercover training course by December 2024 and was assigned to the undercover unit of the Border Police South.
D., a friend of the late Neta’s unit, told Maariv, “Kahana and I met during the training of YAMAS (Covert Operations) troops at the Border Police Military School, after which we were assigned to a unit in the south together. He is a very present person, insanely dominant. Very smart and always planned in his head. He was really like a brother. There are no friends like him in the world. He does everything with you hand in hand, never leaves you alone, always thinks of others, and wants to help. Kahane loved to be adventurous and had a zest for life.”
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