IDF reservist injured in Hamas attack in southern Gaza succumbs to wounds |
An Israel Defense Forces reservist wounded in a Hamas attack in the southern Gaza Strip in October 2025 succumbed to his wounds overnight, the military said Thursday.
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Asael Babad, 38, an infantryman with the Menashe Regional Brigade’s 941st Battalion, from the West Bank settlement of Bnei Adam, was seriously injured when Palestinian terror operatives attacked soldiers in Rafah on October 19, less than a week into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Babad was serving with the Gaza Division as a heavy machinery operator.
According to an IDF probe, the cell of gunmen emerged from a tunnel on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line and fired RPGs at an army excavator, killing two troops of the Nahal Brigade.
At the same time, another excavator was hit by........