The Israeli occupation army said in a statement on its official website that soldier Natan Rosenfeld (20 years old), a "fighter in the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion of the Iron Arches Brigade (401)", was killed during a battle in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army radio reported that Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device, noting that the rest of the force members were not injured in the incident.
She noted that since the Israeli occupation army resumed its war on the Gaza Strip on March 18, the death toll among its ranks has risen to 30 soldiers.
Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the explosion occurred in the Jabalia area in northern Gaza, without providing further details.
With this soldier's death, the death toll of Israeli officers and soldiers since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, has risen to 880, including 436 killed since the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on October 27, according to data from the Israeli occupation army published on its website.
The number of wounded since the beginning of the war has reached 6,029 officers and soldiers, including 2,743 since the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip continue to confront Israeli forces advancing into various areas of the Strip, using explosive devices and various types of missiles amid violent clashes and repeated explosions.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with US support, has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, leaving approximately 190,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, more than 11,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands displaced.
