The IDF announces that a comabt engineer who was seriously wounded by a roadside explosive in the southern Gaza Strip last week, July 19, has succumbed to his wounds today.

The dead soldier was Sgt. Maj. (res.) Betzalel Yehoshua Mosbacher, 32, of the 749th Combat Engineering Battalion, from the illegal Golan Heights settlement of Avnei Eitan.