Gadi Eisenkot, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Minister of the Israeli War Cabinet, heard the news of his nephew’s death a day after losing his son on the battlefield.
According to the Times of Israel on the 10th (local time), the IDF reported through social media He said he died in the explosion.
The IDF said the explosive device detonated near the military, striking members of the Palestinian militant faction Hamas on the roof of a mosque and members of Hamas emerging from an underground tunnel. It is reported that one officer and two other soldiers also died in this accident.
Gadi Eisenkot (right), nephew of the former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff and Minister of War Cabinet, and his son Gal Eisenkot (left). (Times of Israel)Earlier, Sergeant Gal Meyer Eisenkot, son of Gadi Eisenkot, also lost his life when a bomb exploded in a tunnel passageway in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on the 7th.
At the time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote to
Gadi Eisenkot served as IDF Chief of Staff from 2015 to 2019. In October of last month, the War Cabinet was formed and he assumed the position of minister without a separate position. He became a member of the War Cabinet.
Meanwhile, according to Sky News, 425 Israeli soldiers have died since the war began on October 7. The death toll on the Palestinian side is reported to be 17,700.
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