Published: 5 Fighters Were Killed by a Trapped Shaft Explosion

Israel at war, the 66th day. The fighters of the 8111 Battalion under the 4th Brigade's combat team began a raid on a terrorist infrastructure complex in the area of a school from which shooting was carried out at the forces in the southern Gaza Strip.

Yesterday (Sunday) during the fighting, a bomb was fired at the forces and terrorists were identified in the area of the school, the fighters returned fire, aimed aircraft and tanks, attempted contact, eliminated the terrorists, and destroyed the terrorist infrastructure in the compound.

During the encounter, the fighters Major General Itay Peri, 36 years old, from Modi'in, were killed. Major Evyatar Cohen, 42 years old, from Kfar Saba. Major Roman Bronstein, 46 years old, from Bat Yam. Captain Elia Yanovsky, 24 years old, from Jerusalem. Major Ari Yehiel Zanilman, 32 years old, is from Jerusalem.

At the same time, the fighters of the 4th Brigade's combat team raided the headquarters of the Islamic Jihad where they located many weapons, mortar bombs, explosive charges, technological equipment such as operating systems, intelligence documents, and a shaft leading to the infrastructure Underground that was destroyed. From the beginning of the fighting of the 4th Brigade's combat team in the southern Gaza Strip, the fighters destroyed terrorist targets and eliminated many terrorists.