Col. Ehsan Daqsa and other officers, including battalion commander, hit by explosive device as they leave tanks to walk to observation position in Jabaliya The post Commander of IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade killed in battle in northern Gaza appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Staff Sergeant Ofir Berkovich, 20, and Sergeant Elishai Young, 19, fell during combat in the northern Gaza Strip. Two soldiers severely injured in Gaza and Lebanon.

At least 20 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East school-turned-shelter in central Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said. The school was being used to shelter displaced people in Nuseirat camp, health authorities said. It was bombed on Sunday.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Saturday's Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The ministry said a number of people were still under the rubble after a residential area was hit.

Israeli strikes in northern Gaza killed scores of people this weekend, according to local officials, with the bloodshed in the enclave and continued attacks in Lebanon dimming hopes that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might breathe new life into cease-fire talks that have been stalled for months.

Colonel Ahsan Daksa, commander of the 401st Brigade, was killed in the Jabalia area when an explosive struck him as he left his tank

Israeli brigade commander Colonel Ahsan Daksa was killed in a blast in Jabalia, northern Gaza, while fighting Hamas. Daksa, a Druze community member, was appointed four months ago and was leading the offensive.