Five Israeli soldiers were killed during battles in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said today and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regretted a “difficult breakfast”.

The 5 Israeli soldiers, aged 20 to 28, were killed yesterday, Monday, while they were operating in Bayita.

“This difficult morning, all the people of Israel are bowing and mourning our fallen heroic fighters,” Netanyahu wrote in his account in X.

“The unbearable news that five heroic boys fell to Gaza, most of them fighters of the Undrastical Order of Necach Gehunda is a jerk,” Israeli President Isaac Hertzog wrote in his account in X.

“For the good of the fighters, for their families, for the abductors, for the state of Israel: this war must stop,” Yair Lapid, the leader of the opposition, wrote. “

Two other soldiers were seriously injured during the same conflict, the army said in a statement issued, without more clarifications.

‘They were trying to save injuries’

According to military correspondents of Israeli media, at least two improvised explosive mechanisms exploded with an infantry force attempting on foot in the Bate Hanun zone.

During their attempt to remove the injured, the soldiers were on fire.

At least 445 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, according to a French prostitute count.

The war broke out on October 7, 2023, after an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel that claimed the lives of 1,219 people, most of the civilians, according to a countdown by the French Agency based on official Israeli data.

At least 57,523 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed In the Gaza Strip during the Israeli military campaign of retaliation, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health for Gaza, which are considered reliable by the UN.