An IDF officer was killed by friendly fire during an operation in northern Gaza on Monday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.
The officer’s family has been notified. The incident is being investigated. Channel 10 News reported that the soldier likely encountered soldiers from another unit who mistook him for a terrorist and opened fire.
Last week, a Palestinian Arab man attempted to run over IDF soldiers near Homesh in northern Samaria, before fleeing the scene of the crime.
That attempt was the second in 24 hours targeting IDF soldiers. Earlier in the day, 19 year-old Mohammad Mubarak opened fire on an IDF guard post next to the Samaria community of Ateret, which lies roughly midway between Jerusalem and Shechem. Soldiers returned fire, killing the terrorist.
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