(JNS) Two IDF soldiers were killed in action in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Wednesday, August 28.

One of the slain soldiers was named as Master Sgt. (res.) Yohay Hay Glam, 32, of the Jerusalem Brigade’s 6310th Battalion, from Netanya. He was killed battling Hamas terrorists in central Gaza on Wednesday morning.

Earlier, the IDF announced that Staff Sgt. Amit Friedman, 19, was killed during fighting in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Friedman, who served with the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, was from Or Yehuda in central Israel.

The death toll among Israeli troops since the start of the IDF ground incursion in Gaza on Oct. 27 now stands at 340, and at 704 on all fronts since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre, according to official military data.