Yedioth Ahronoth says that the captured officer in the Qassam video is Reserve Major Tomer Shlomo Meara, 28 years old, from Netanya, a fighter in the 710th Engineering Battalion. Whose death was announced yesterday, and to refute what she called “rumors” among the Israeli public about the kidnapping of a soldier by Al-Qassam fighters, and she said that Al-Qassam announced control of his weapons only to justify that rumour. It seems that the Israeli public is watching the Al-Qassam videos as we watch them, and it terrifies them frighteningly.
It is clear that the Israeli public has greater confidence in the Qassams than in their army. For this reason, the journalist used the Qassam announcement as a reference. -Source Tamer

Update: IDF announced his death 45 minutes ago, and he was killed yesterday along with 9 other soldiers in Juhur Al-Deek.

Master Sgt. (res.) Joseph Avner Doran, 26, from Jerusalem, was killed in fighting in the north of the Strip. He was part of the IDF’s mobility unit and served in the Shayetet 13 commando force.

#BREAKING | 10 martyrs, several injuries, mostly children, have just arrived at Jabalia clinic as a result of the Israeli shelling of a house belonging to the Shahab family in the Jabalia Al-Balad area in the northern Gaza Strip.