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IDF Reports Four Soldiers, Including Evyatar Atuar, Killed in Gaza Hamas Attack

Aug 24, 2024, 05:28 PM

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that four soldiers were killed during operations in the central Gaza Strip. Among the casualties was Sergeant First Class (res.) Evyatar Atuar, a 24-year-old reservist from Mash Ha-Ein, with the 6310th Reconnaissance Battalion of the Jerusalem Brigade. He was killed by an explosive device in Gaza City on Friday. Additionally, three other soldiers, Major Danil Pechenyuk, 26, Major Nitai Metodi, 23, and Sergeant Major Yaniv Itzhak Oren, 35, were killed in separate clashes with Palestinian gunmen. The incidents, part of a Hamas attack, have raised the IDF's fatality toll from the ground operation to 338.