According to her, two Israeli soldiers were killed in the incident, and seven others were injured of varying severity. The cause of the accident is now being clarified. According to initial reports, the helicopter did not crash due to enemy fire, the army said.
As follows from the statement of the army press service, we are talking about the Yanshuf helicopter (ivar. "owl") is the name of the American UH-60 Black Hawk multipurpose helicopter in the Israeli Air Force. At night, he was called to evacuate an Israeli soldier wounded in Gaza to the hospital. The helicopter crashed on landing in the Rafah area, the army said.
The operational activities of the Israeli Air Force have not changed since the incident, according to the press service. The commander of the Israeli Air Force, Major General Tomer Bar, appointed a commission of the VSK to investigate the circumstances of the crash, reports tass.ru.
