The Israeli army announced, on Sunday evening, the killing of an officer in the armored corps in the battles north of the Gaza Strip, raising the announced death toll to 15 in the last 24 hours.

The army said in a brief statement that a reserve major officer in the armored corps was killed in battles north of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli media described today, Sunday, as a "black day" for Israel due to the significant increase in the number of Israeli soldiers killed.

The army announced in a statement on Sunday morning the killing of 9 soldiers, after it announced on Saturday evening the killing of 5 officers and soldiers in battles in the south and north of the Gaza Strip. According to the data, the death toll in the Israeli army since the start of the ground military operation in the Gaza Strip on October 27 has risen to 154 soldiers and officers, while the total toll since the beginning of the war has risen to 487.

Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which has so far resulted, as of Sunday, in 20,424 deaths, including more than 8,000 children and 6,000 women, in addition to massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to sector authorities and the United Nations.