Two soldiers were seriously injured in separate incidents on Monday, one in a training accident in northern Israel and another during operational activity in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

In the first incident, a cadet in the IDF officers’ training school was badly hurt during a training exercise at a base in northern Israel. According to the military, the cadet served in the Gefen Battalion at the Bahad 1 officers’ school.

In a separate incident the same day, a soldier from the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion was seriously injured after falling from a height, in what the IDF described as an operational accident in the southern Gaza Strip.

Both soldiers were evacuated to hospitals for medical treatment, and........

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