The Israeli army announced on Saturday that three Israeli reserve officers were killed on Friday in the central Gaza Strip, where Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Hamas movement for over ten months.
Since Israeli forces entered the Gaza Strip on October 27, the Israeli army has lost 338 soldiers.
In recent weeks, ground fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters has concentrated in the center of the small Palestinian territory, particularly around the city of Deir al-Balah.
The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the Islamic movement’s attack on Israel on October 7, which resulted in the death of 1,400 people on the Israeli side, mostly military personnel (both active and reserve), according to official data that has been revised downward twice.
Since then, Israel has been relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip, where Hamas has been in power since 2007. According to the Health Ministry of the Hamas government, these retaliatory attacks have killed at least 40,334 people and injured more than 93,000, mostly women and children, as reported by the UN.