Jerusalem.- The son of Gadi Eisenkot, minister and member of Israeli War Cabinet and former Chief of the Army Staff, died today fighting in Gaza, which brings to 89 the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the ground offensive in the Stripe.
Meir Gal Eisenkot, 25 years old, died after a bomb explosion at the entrance to a tunnel in the Yabalia refugee camp area, in northern Gaza. He was seriously injured and rushed to an Israeli hospital where he ended up dying.
Eisenkot He was a soldier in the reserve who joined the military offensive against Hamas in Gaza after what Israel mobilized some 360,000 reservists when the war began on October 7, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel which resulted in the death of at least 1,200 people and more than 240 hostages taken to Loop.
The army also announced the death of another 34-year-old soldier who “fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip“this Thursday, which increases the number of soldiers killed in combat to 89 since Israel began its invasion on land in Loop on October 27.
For its part, Gadi Eisenkot He is a character widely known among the Israeli public for his long military career and as a senior official in the security apparatus. Defense of Israel.
He was head of Army General Staff between 2015 and 2019 and, like many other military veterans, he jumped into politics in recent years and joined the center-right party National unityled by the also former head of Benny Gantz General Staff.
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After the conflict broke out in Loopthe Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuformed a War Cabinet to manage the war effort and the party National Unity joined the Government
After that, both Gantz as Eisenkot They became ministers without portfolio of the Executive and both are among the five members that make up the war cabinetled by himself Netanyahu.
Eisenkot He would be an observer of the cabinet, although according to the media he participates fully in decision-making about the war.
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Netanyahu today issued a statement of condolences to Eisenkot in which he was “heartbroken” over the death of his son Gal.
“Gal was a brave soldier and a true hero. We send our deepest condolences to your family and the families of all our fallen heroes,” the prime minister added.