The Israeli military said that two of its soldiers were killed and two others wounded by a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, Press TV reported.
The occupation’s army said on Sunday that Captain Noam Ravid, 23, and Staff Sergeant Yaly Seror, 20, from the Yahalom combat engineering unit, were scanning the entrance to a tunnel inside a building when they were hit by an explosion on Saturday.
Two other Israeli soldiers from the same unit were injured in the blast, one of them severely, it added.
Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime failed to achieve its declared objectives in Gaza despite killing at least 52,495 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 118,366 others.
It accepted Hamas’s longstanding negotiation terms under a Gaza ceasefire, which began on January 19.
Two months later, however, Israel unilaterally broke the truce and resumed its relentless bombing of Gaza.
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