Today, the IDF cleared for publication the names of three Israeli soldiers who fell in battle in Gaza:

Master Sergeant Gideon Chay DeRowe, 33 from Tel Aviv, was a soldier in the elite Yahalom Unit of the Combat Engineers Corps.

Cpt. Yisrael Yudkin, 22 from Kfar Habad, and Staff Sergeant Eliyahau Haim Emsallem, 21 from Raanana, were soldiers in the 97th Battalion of the Kfir Brigade.

In the same the incident in which Master Sergeant Gideon Chay DeRowe was killed, multiple other soldiers were seriously wounded. They are an officer and a soldier from the 97th Battalion of the Kfir Brigade and a reservist from the Yahalom Unit of the Combat Engineers Corps.

In the same incident in which Cpt. Yisrael Yudkin and Staff Sergeant Eliyahau Haim Emsallem were killed, another soldier from the 97th Battalion was seriously wounded. Meanwhile, earlier today along the northern border, a reservist from Battalion 9263 of the 226th Brigade was seriously wounded in an operations accident.

{Matzav.com}