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- According to Israeli military radio, the two soldiers were killed when an old building collapsed
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military said on Tuesday that two soldiers were killed in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Major Moshiko Maxim Rozenwald, 35, a reservist and combat engineer, and another unnamed soldier were killed in an “incident,” the military said in a statement without providing further details.
According to Israeli military radio, the two soldiers were killed when an old building collapsed.
The building was not struck by enemy fire but was in a fragile condition before its collapse, military radio reported.
According to the military, the deaths bring to 386 the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza military campaign since the start of the ground offensive on October 27, 2023.
The war was sparked by Hamas’s surprise October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,208 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures that includes hostages killed in captivity.
Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed at least 45,059 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.