Sgt. Oron Shaul, 21, from Poriyah was named on Tuesday by the IDF as the soldier currently missing in Gaza. Shaul was in the infantry APC targeted by Hamas in an attack in Gaza on Sunday. It is unknown whether Sgt. Shaul is dead or alive and the IDF is working intensively to find answers.
The announcement came after Hamas claimed to have kidnapped an Israeli soldier on Sunday, not clarifying if he was alive or dead.
Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the Hamas\’s armed wing, said the soldier was seized in heavy fighting on the Gaza border. He displayed a photo ID and army serial number of the man. However, no image of the soldier in their hands has not been presented.
Following the attack, six bodies of soldiers who were on board the ACP when it was hit were identified, the army said, but a seventh, Sgt. Shaul, who was also on board remains unaccounted for.
In the incident, which occurred at 1:05 a.m. on Sunday morning, an APC carrying soldiers from Golani’s 13th Battalion drove over and detonated an explosive device.
The IDF had previously announced on Sunday that the seven soldiers aboard the APC were killed in the incident, but their names had not been released due to problems identifying them. The families of the soldiers, however, were notified that their loved ones had been killed in the incident.
In addition to Shaul, the IDF on Tuesday released the names of the six additional soldiers who were killed in the APC attack as Sgt. Max Steinberg, aged 24, from Beersheba; Stf.-Sgt. Shachar Tase, 20, from Pardesiya; Stf.-Sgt. Daniel Pomerantz, 20, Kfar Azar; Sgt. Shon Mondshine, 19, Tel Aviv; Sgt. Ben Itzhak Oanounou, 19, Ashdod; Stf.-Sgt. Oren Simcha Noah, 22, Hoshaya. All six soldiers were from the Golani Brigade and have been promoted posthumously.