Sergeant-Major Nadav Cohen and Staff-Sergeant Nachman Refael Ben Ami were killed in battle while fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Thursday.
Sgt.-Maj. Cohen, 21, from Beit Hanan, served in the 51st Battalion in the Golani Brigade.
St.-Sgt. Ben Ami, 20, from Eilat also served in the the 51st Battalion in the Golani Brigade.
The military added that a soldier had also been seriously wounded in the incident.
Due to bad weather, a crane fell in the area where the soldiers were operating near the Israeli border, Israeli media reported. Several other soldiers were wounded to various degrees, according to the reports.
The military has opened an investigation into the incident.
Soldiers killed since beginning of war
According to the IDF’s tally, the deaths of Sgt.-Maj. Cohen and St.-Sgt. Ben Ami raise the total of soldiers killed on or since October 7 of last year to 844.
Some 405 of this number were killed since the start of the military’s ground operations in the Strip on October 27.
