The IDF on Monday morning announced that a reserve soldier was killed on Sunday morning in an operational accident near the Gaza border.

He was identified as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Dejen Daniel Sahalo, H’yd, 41, from Rechovot. He served as a heavy equipment operator in the Combat Engineering Corps’ 5067th Battalion.

He was killed in the overturning of a military truck near Kibbutz Nachal Oz.

Reservist forces from the Jerusalem Brigade are currently operating in the area to expand the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip.

The IDF said that it is investigating the incident.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)