At least 887 Israeli soldiers were killed in the 22 -month Gaza War, which made at least 57,523 Palestinians who died and more than 135,000 injured.
The Israeli army says five of its soldiers were killed after Palestinian fighters exploded explosive devices during an operation in the Beit Hanoon region in northern Gaza.
Israeli forces also killed at least 54 Palestinians in Dawn Raids on Tuesday, while pressure rose on Israel to conclude a cease-fire contract with Hamas.
The Israeli army said that the five soldiers, aged 20 to 28, “fell during the northern fight of the Gaza Strip”, while 14 others were injured – two of them “seriously injured”.
Reports from the capital of Jordan Amman, the Nour Odeh of Tel Aviv Tribune, said that a “preliminary investigation” on the death of the soldiers had been opened.
“What we understand is that the Israeli soldiers were attacked, then the unit that tried to come to their aid was also attacked, then a third group of soldiers who tried to extract them was also attacked,” she said.
Since Israel launched his war against Gaza in October 2023, at least 887 of his soldiers were killed.
The deaths of Tuesday occurred two weeks after Israel reported one of his deadliest days in months in Gaza, where seven soldiers were killed after a bomb was attached to their armored vehicle.
Abu Obeida, spokesperson for the Qassam brigades, the army wing of Hamas, said that the last attack was “an additional blow … In an area that the occupation thought it was safe”, warning that the group “would inflict additional losses” on the Israeli army “every day”.
‘Difficult morning’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deplored a “difficult morning” while visiting Washington, DC, for interviews with US President Donald Trump, while the two leaders discussed the forced relocation of Gaza Palestinians.
Last week, Trump predicted that Israeli and Hamas negotiators holding indirect cease-fire talks in Qatar could conclude an agreement this week.
The bloodshed in Gaza increases the pressure on Netanyahu to accept the current proposals supported by the United States for a 60-day cease-fire to stop the 22-month offensive. Israeli polls have shown large support to end war.
The head of the opposition Yair Lapid wrote on X: “For the good of the fighters, for the good of their families, for the good of the hostages, for the good of the State of Israel: this war must be finished.”
Odeh of Tel Aviv Tribune said that opposition figures in Israel say that soldiers are dying in Gaza “not to protect Israel, but to protect the Netanyahu coalition government.”
“ Night without sleep ” in Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel continued its genocidal assault in Gaza, medical sources saying in Tel Aviv Tribune that at least 54 Palestinians had been killed since dawn on Tuesday.
“It was a sleepless night here in Gaza, marked by an intensification of air attacks and the use of several air vehicles, including hunting jets, drones and helicopters to rub the residential areas and the spaces that had been designated as safe areas ” in Central Gaza.
At least nine Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone attack on a tent housing the Palestinians displaced in the Al-Mawasi region near the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza.
In a separate attack on dawn, two people were killed and others injured in Israeli air raids in the Hakr al-Jami region in Deir El-Balah, the Wafa news agency reported, citing medical sources.
Israeli planes have also bombed a school of Palestinians displaced in the Bureij refugee camp, in the center of Gaza, would have killed at least four people.
The fighting pushed the health system to Gaza almost a total collapse. Palestine’s red crescent said on Tuesday that the Zeitoun Medical Clinic of Gaza City had ceased operations after bombing in the surroundings.
He said the closure would require thousands of civilians to travel long distances for medical care or children’s vaccinations.
Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune said that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital of Central Gaza had published a statement on Monday, claiming that there would be a lack of fuel “in the coming hours” and calling the international community to put pressure on Israel to allow deliveries.
