A serious incident in Division 98 that operates in Khan Yunis: Lieutenant Shahar Ben Non Petach Tikva, 21 years old, an officer of a paratrooper patrol was killed this morning (Monday) in a battle in the southern Gaza Strip. In the incident, three fighters were moderately injured and three others were slightly injured. The injured were evacuated by helicopter for hospital treatment. Ben Nun was promoted from the rank of sergeant to the rank of lieutenant after his death. Ben Nun left behind a pair of parents, a twin brother who is now on his way to Israel from abroad, and another brother in high school.
Ben Nun was supposed to be released in about two months. He studied at Golda High School in the city, and was active in the Boy Scouts. He has a partner. “The family is devastated by the difficult news”. The residents were asked to stand tomorrow at 17:00 near the house with flags from where the funeral will leave for Kiryat Shaul.
IDF soldiers on the outskirts of Khan Yunis, photo: IDF spokesman
At 6:40 the first report was received of a partial collapse in the upper part of a 6-story building. At that time there was a private of the force belonging to the 98th division, which deals with destroying tunnels and harming terrorists in the area. The circumstances of the incident are still under investigation.
His aunt, Shahar ben Nun, said: “Shahar, my beloved nephew, is a paratrooper patrol officer who was killed this morning in Gaza. Still too shocked to describe the feelings in our family. Our Shahar, 21 years old in Nefo, was a charismatic and strong young man. But for me he is also the sweet and smiling nephew. This That everyone in the family was always caring. And just like the dawn, which heralds the sunrise, our red-haired dawn would also come with a big smile. Dawn, my love, I miss you very much.”
The Maccabi Petah Tikva basketball club: “Immense pain once again in the club. Another graduate of the youth department fell in the damn war, Lieutenant Shahar Ben Nun the late, who was killed in the southern Gaza Strip.
Shahar played in the club from a very young age in the basketball school and in the 5th grade he moved to play in the league teams, where he made a difference until he was a teenager, then he retired from playing.”
“Shahar comes from a large basketball family, when all four brothers played in the club – the older brother Roy who also coached at the basketball school and the league teams, his twin brother Yuval, and his younger brother Ido. In the army, Shahar was an outstanding soldier who went into the army and was a team commander in a paratrooper patrol. Maccabi Petah Tikva Basketball “Participate in the family’s never-ending sorrow and will do everything to perpetuate his memory,” said the basketball club.
The mayor of Petah Tikva, Rami Greenberg, paid tribute to him: “It was allowed to be published that the hero of Israel, Lieutenant Shahar Ben Nun, an officer and fighter in the paratroopers who grew up and was educated in Petah Tikva, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip, and he was 21 years old when he fell. Our hearts go out to the family. May his memory be blessed.”
The Population and Immigration Authority: “The Director General of the Population and Immigration Authority, the authority’s management and its employees, bow their heads tonight and share in the deep sorrow of our co-worker Guy Ben Non and his family members, upon learning of the fall of their son Lieutenant Shahar Ben Non, a team commander in a paratrooper patrol.”
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