An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed while battling Hezbollah terrorists along the border with Lebanon, the military announced on Monday morning.
The slain soldier was named as Master Sgt. (res.) Etay Azulay, 25, of the IDF’s elite Unit 5515, from Oranit.
Two other soldiers were seriously injured in the incident.
On Sunday, the military announced the death of a soldier wounded some four months ago during counter-terror operations in northern Gaza.
Sgt. First Class (res.) Nir Haddad, 28, from Petach Tikvah, served in the 8th Armored Brigade when he was wounded on June 15.
Also on Sunday, three IDF troops, including an officer of the Givati Brigade’s Shaked Battalion, were seriously wounded during fighting in the northern Strip, the military said.
The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27 now stands at 347, and at 728 on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, terror massacre, according to official military data. JNS
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Not to downplay any of these tragic losses, but more of a point of consolation.
According to many military strategists before the IDF went in to Gaza, the likely death toll for the IDF (based on previous engagements of the Israelis as well as other militaries) was about 110-150 per day.
The fact that we are a nearly a year in, and we only have a week’s worth of casualties speaks to an incredible Hashgacha.
BORUCH DAIYAN HAEMES!! AND BORUCH DAIYAN HAEMES ON ALL OF THE 728 KILLED SOLDIERS!! HASHEM YINAKEIM DAMAM!!
What is so especially excessively sad and gravely immensely tragic is that EVERY ONE OF THESE 728 DEATHS was absolutely unnecessary!!!!!!!!! Every one of these 728 was totally unnecessary because this entire war could have EASILY been totally avoided!!
The Israel government very well knew about the huge attack that the Hamas was planning and thus could have easily positioned its IDF around Gaza to completely block any attempting invaders. Then, even after the Hamas invaders did start entering & pouring into the country, the IDF — within minutes — could have easily flown massive fleets of gunship helicopters over there to quickly blow off all the invading thugs.
Yet, the government & its holy, holy, holy supposedly “invincible” IDF did NOT do this!! Instead, they willingly and purposely allowed the thick massive Hamas hordes to fully swarm into the country and savagely & sadistically massacre way, way over a thousand totally innocent people and brutally abduct over another 250 people, very many of whom were later killed.
The blood of all of these people killed by Hamas is not only on the wicked hands of the wicked Hamas, Yimach Shemam V’Zichram, it is equally on the wicked hands of the wicked Israel government & its wicked IDF leaders!!
In almost every war, it is not only the soldiers fighting in combat on the battlefields who are killed but also the civilians living quietly in their homes in the nation’s cities, towns, and countryside villages who get killed, sometimes even in extremely, extremely large numbers. This current war with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon is certainly no exception to this phenomenon at all, especially as the severely wicked Hamas & Hezbollah leaders PURPOSELY position their civilians to be right in the line of combat fire and purposely put their artillery guns & rocket launchers & command posts right in civilian homes & schools & hospitals. In this epitome of fiendish manipulation, when IDF soldiers try to shoot & bomb back at what is shooting & bombing at them, they are compelled to shoot & bomb & blow up whole apartment buildings & schools & universities & hospitals and kill surgeons & doctors & numerous other civilians. This vicious “military tactic” is called using people as “human shields” and is really prohibited under International Law.
The Israel government’s not stopping the horrific Simchas Torah – October 7 hyper-massacre resulted in not only the massacre that occurred on that day — which was the exceedingly brutal murders & abductions of nearly one and a half thousand people — it further resulted in this now year long bitter intense war, continuing to widen and escalate with no end in sight, in which these 728 soldiers have been tragically killed, with countless more Israel soldiers & civilians in increasing dangers of death.