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Sergeant (res.) Assaf Kafri, 26, from Beit Hashmonai, a tank driver in the 79th Battalion of the "HaMachach" Brigade, fell yesterday (Thursday) in battle in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, an officer from the Yahalam unit and a reserve soldier from the 79th Battalion were seriously injured in the incident. Another soldier was moderately injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kfar Hayd was promoted from the rank of Major General (res.) to the rank of Sergeant Major (res.) after his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred when the armored personnel carriers, most of them reservists, were traveling in a tank in the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip, near Beit Hanoun. At one point, the fighters exited the tank to carry out an operational mission and were exposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At this point, terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at them that did not hit the force, but continued to fire from small arms, killing one fighter and wounding three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred near the place where the late IDF scout Ralev Nassara fell last Saturday. The IDF is investigating whether the cell that attacked the force today was also active in the incident on Saturday. \u2060<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2060After the shooting, the IDF launched a broad wave of air and artillery strikes. Approximately 40 Hamas terror targets in the northern Gaza Strip were attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full details of the sniper and anti-tank gunfire incident in the buffer zone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The fighters, most of whom are reserve armored fighters, were traveling in a tank in the administrative axis area, in the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip, near Beit Hanoun. At one point, the fighters exited the tank - for an operational mission, and were thus exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2060\u2022 When they were exposed for the operational mission, terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at them - which did not hit, and at the same time carried out sniper fire - which hit, killing one of the fighters and wounding three others. Two of the wounded were seriously injured, and the third was moderately injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2060\u2022 The administrative axis where the incident occurred is the exact same axis where the incident took place last Saturday, in which the late IDF tracker R'aleb Nassara fell. The incident occurred a few hundred meters from the scene of the incident on Saturday, adjacent to another outpost that the IDF holds in the buffer zone (meaning not at the exact same outpost from the incident on Saturday, but at one near it). This time too, the incident occurred a few hundred meters from the Gaza border, and within an area that has been controlled by IDF forces for many months in a row, and not an area that was recently occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2060\u2022 The IDF is investigating whether the terrorist cell that was behind the ambush on army forces last Saturday and killed the tracker is the same cell that carried out the incident today. After the incident on Saturday, the IDF was unable to eliminate the cell - so it is possible that it returned to the same area today to carry out a similar operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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