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Warrant Officer Tom Ish-Shalom, 38, was killed in a helicopter crash in Gaza. Ish-Shalom leaves behind his wife and three children.

Warrant Officer (res.) Daniel Alloush, 37, from Tel Aviv and Warr. Ofc. (res.) Tom Ish-Shalom, 38, from Ness Harim were named as the soldiers killed in the crash.

The IDF showed footage of a Rafah tunnel where six hostages were killed after possibly surviving there for weeks.

Shab had been in charge of the rocket barrages fired at southern Israel from the Khan Yunis area since the onset of the Israel-Hamas War.

In one of the 932nd Battalion’s raids on terror infrastructure in the Tel Al-Sultan area, a terrorist reportedly threw a grenade at the Israeli forces, who responded with fire.

"The tunnel was hidden in a child's yard, a place where a child should be safe, and not used as a human shield for Hamas."

The IDF noted that Division 162 has eliminated around 200 terrorists in recent weeks.

As Philadelphi looms, those sent to patrol it will need to learn lessons from what has worked and not worked in the past.

The text contains instructions for Hamas terrorists on how to operate within the underground tunnels, how to hide the entrances to the networks, and how to find them. 

To the families of the six hostages, he said, “I ask your apology that we did not succeed in bringing them home alive.”