The 13th Battalion of the Golani Division revealed that 41 of its soldiers were killed on the day they called “Black Saturday,” in reference to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on October 7th.
The battalion stated that 7 fighters, including the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Greenberg, were killed in what they called “one of the most difficult battles in the Gaza Strip,” referring to the battle of the Shuja’iya neighborhood on December 12.
The officially announced death toll of the Israeli army since the start of the ground operation in Gaza on October 27 of last year reached 174, while the number of those injured was 936. The total number of those killed since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7 of last year also rose to 502, between an officer and a soldier.
Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Israeli army has launched a devastating aggression against Gaza, leaving 21,672 martyrs and 55,000 injured, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.