Five Israeli soldiers were killed in the battle in the Gaza Strip, the army said on Tuesday in one of the deadliest days before Israeli troops in Palestinian territory this year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regretted a “difficult morning” when he visited Washington for conversations with US President Donald Trump, who insists on a ceasefire in the war for more than 21 months.
“The whole of Israel bends his head and mourns the fall of our heroic soldiers, who risked their lives in the fight to defeat Hamas and free all our hostages,” placed the Lord Netanyahu on X.
The Israeli army said that the five soldiers, between 20 and 28 years old, “fell into the northern Gaza Strip during the battle.”
Two others were seriously injured and “evacuated to a hospital to get medical treatment,” said it, adding their families were informed.
Mourning people gathered around the grave of a soldier who was killed in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Israeli military correspondents reported that the deaths took place when improvised explosive devices in the field of Beit Hanun in the north of the territory exploded.
During attempts to evacuate the wounded, soldiers reportedly came under fire.
Abu Obeaida, the spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, said: “The complex beit Hanun operation is another blow of our brave hunters”.
“The exhaustion war that our hunters venture against the enemy of the north of the comic to the South Sea filling up extra losses every day,” said the spokesperson for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in a statement.
In a post on X, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog said: “The unbearable news of the fall of five heroic sons in Gaza-de Most of them hunters of the Ultraorthodox” Netzach Yehuda “Battaljon-Doorboort the heart”.
In the meantime, opposition leader Yair Lapid wrote: “Because of the hunters, because of their families, because of the hostages, because of the state of Israel: this war must be terminated.”
No breakthrough in ceases -furen negotiations
Qatar said on Tuesday that more time was needed for negotiations about a ceasefish -the fires between Israel and Hamas, after the US President expressed optimism about a possible breakthrough.
The special envoy of Mr Trump, Steve Witkoff, would participate in the conversations in Doha this week.
Israel and Hamas started the last negotiation round on Sunday, with representatives who were in the same building in separate rooms.
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Qatar, a mediator together with the United States and Egypt, said that the meetings in Doha were aimed at a framework for the conversations, while a Palestinian official close to the negotiations said that no breakthrough had been achieved so far.
“We must have a ceasefire in Gaza in the coming weeks, if the unbearable situation persists, the British government will continue to take measures against Israel,” said British Foreign Minister David Lammy.
The war has created terrible humanitarian circumstances for the more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.
AFP/ Reuters
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