St.-Sgt. Elkana Navon was killed in battle while fighting in the West Bank Palestinian city of Jenin, the IDF announced on Saturday.
St.-Sgt. Navon, 20, from Petah Tikva, served in the 906th Battalion in the Bislach Brigade.
He was killed while battling terrorists, and two of his fellow soldiers were also wounded in the fighting and were evacuated to the Emek Hospital in Afula.
Navon was killed after encounter with Hamas in the West Bank
The encounter in which Navon was killed occured at around 6 a.m. on Saturday, according to Ynet.
The report said that he encountered two prominent Hamas operatives in a refugee camp in Jenin - both of whom were eliminated.
Forces from the IDF's Bislach Brigade came to reinforce the Jenin area for two weeks, Ynet noted.
The purpose of the operation is to create pressure on the terrorist organizations in the West Bank ahead of the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
This is a developing story.