Israel today confirmed that seven soldiers were killed during combat operations in southern Gaza after an explosive device struck their armoured vehicle. The incident occurred yesterday after an operative planted a bomb on an armoured combat engineering vehicle the soldiers were in while driving in Khan Younis. According to local media reports, the blast set the vehicle on fire, and efforts to extinguish it were unsuccessful. All the soldiers inside perished in the blaze. Earlier yesterday, another soldier from the same battalion was severely injured in combat in the southern Gaza Strip.
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