The leader of the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has announced the death of Major Nadav Noler of Israel’s 8th Brigade of the 121st Battalion in Gaza.

Yonatan Kuznitz, the head of the Karnei Shomron Council, was quoted by the Israeli media as saying Noler, who was from Karnei Shomron, was killed during Monday night’s fighting, without elaborating on the exact location. The Israeli media later reported that he was killed in central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor.

Later, the Israeli media, citing a message of the Israeli army to the affected families, reported that another soldier – Captain Eyal Abneon of the Nahal Brigade – also died with Noler.

The latest deaths raised the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the Gaza war began in October to 674.