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Three soldiers seriously wounded, eight moderately and 19 lightly in past 24 hours, army says; IDF death toll now rises to 25.
Seven IDF officers and soldiers have been killed in Gaza over the last 24 hours, it has been cleared for publication on Monday evening.
The IDF Spokesman's Office said three other soldiers have been seriously wounded, eight moderately wounded and 19 were lightly wounded in the past 24 hours.
The families of the killed and wounded soldiers have already been notified.
The IDF death toll in Operation Protective Edge so far now stands on 25 officers and soldiers who were killed in action in the Gaza Strip.
One of the soldiers is Staff Sergeant Yuval Dagan, 22 from Kfar Saba, a combat soldier in the Golani Brigade. Dagan was supposed to be released from his army service in a short while.
His uncle Yossi said: "Yuval insisted on being a combat soldier because in our family, everyone are. His father and brother were in commando units and he insisted to enlist and become a commando like the rest of the family."
The uncle went on to say: "Yuval loved life, loved giving back to the community and before he joined the army, he spent a year in a center for at-risk youth in southern Israel. We still can't believe he's been killed."
Dagan was raised in Kfar Saba, and graduated from Herzog high school in the city.
His friends said he was "a wonderful person, friendly, amicable. Always with a smile on his face, he aspired to greatness, he was a creative person. We're all shocked."
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