Israeli military confirms 16th trooper killed in Gaza resistance operations in July
Iran Press TV
Sunday, 27 July 2025 3:33 AM
The Israeli military confirms the death of its 16th trooper in July as a result of retaliatory operations by resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli regime has been waging a genocidal war since October 2023.
The military reported the development in a statement on Saturday, identifying the fatality as a 32-year-old reservist, who died of wounds received during an explosion in southern Gaza last week.
The blast in the city of Khan Younis also reportedly afflicted serious wounds on another Israeli reservist too.
According to the military, Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher -- the reservist who died -- was the 896th Israeli trooper to be killed in the coastal sliver since the onset of the war.
Gaza's resistance groups, however, put the death toll far higher.
They cite the regime's efforts at misleading its own settlers and the global public opinion about the true extent of its wartime losses.
Such an approach, critics argue, allows the regime to try to justify prolonging the war.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed the military assault as the only means of enabling the release of those of the regime's captives, who remain in Gaza.
Indiscriminate Israeli assaults have, however, claimed the lives of at least 27 of the captives so far.
The regime's settlers take to the streets in their thousands in many cities throughout the occupied Palestinian territories every Saturday, blasting Tel Aviv for dragging the war on at the cost of the family members' lives.
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