GAZA – Three Israeli army soldiers lost their lives, and two were seriously wounded, in combat in Gaza on Wednesday.
Of those who died, one was 20-years old, and the other two, 21.
The trio was among a number of IDF troops scouring tunnels in Rafah near the Egyptian border on Wednesday when an explosive device was detonated causing a building to collapse.
They were named as St.-Sgt. Amir Galilove, 20, of Shimshit, St.-Sgt. Uri Bar Or, 21, of kibbutz Midreshet Ben-Gurion, and St.-Sgt Ido Appel, 21, of Tzofer.
The two critically wounded soldiers were transferred to hospital.
Separately, on Tuesday, an IDF officer from the 614th Battalion of the Combat Engineering corps, and another soldier sustained serious injuries in an apparent gunfight in the northern Gaza Strip.
Meantime a soldier from the Yahalom unit of the Combat Engineering Corps was critically wounded in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
The IDF confirmed Wednesday that three soldiers had died, and 7 soldiers were seriously wounded in separate incidents across Gaza in the previous 24 hours.
