Friendly fire

IDF officer moderately injured in friendly fire accident at military engineering school

The officer was evacuated to receive medical attention at the hospital, and his family was notified.

Soldiers from the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade operating in the Gaza Strip, January 14, 2026; illustrative.
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IDF soldier killed by friendly fire in Gaza, Melissa Francis talks Carlson and Ambassador Huckabee

 IDF troops operate in the West Bank, May 30, 2025.

Friendly fire incident in Nablus special op. leads to dismissal of IDF's Duvdevan commanders

 (L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi

Leaks of findings from Oct. 7 IDF probe show: Friendly fire incidents, hesitation to fight


Vigilante culture in Israel highlighted by Yuval Castleman killing

Yuval Castleman was shot and killed by an IDF after neutralizing attackers at the scene of a terror attack – even though he identified himself and dropped his weapon.

 Israeli security at the scene of a terror shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem where Hamas-affiliated terrorists killed three Israelis and an IDF soldier killed one more, Yuval Castleman, Nov. 30, 2023.

Israel probes friendly-fire killing of Israeli who took down Jerusalem terrorists

Israel Police and Shin Bet investigation has been opened to investigators from the military police.

 Israeli security forces operate in east Jerusalem.

Israeli paratrooper dies after being shot in IDF live-fire training

The drill was intentionally carried out at night as is standard for combat fights being trained to fight in night conditions.

 Sgt. Or Israelov was killed during a live-fire training, June 27, 2023+

19-year-old Baruch Kabrata killed in gun negligence incident on IDF base

Military officials initially suspected he was killed by a fellow soldier in a tragic incident of gun negligence.

 IDF Cpl. Baruch Kabrata was killed on his IDF base overnight, January 3, 2023.

Soldier died in friendly fire incident in part due to safety failures - IDF

St.-Sgt. Natan Fitoussi had left his guard post to pray and upon returning was misidentified and shot by another soldier.

 St.-Sgt. Natan Fitoussi who was killed by friendly fire.

IDF soldier sentenced to 26 months for accidental killing of Yonatan Granot

First Sergeant Yonatan Granot, 22 years old from Kibbutz Einat, a commander in the "Bazelet" battalion of the Nahal, was accidentally shot by Sergeant M in the Tevez camp in the Jordan Valley.

 IDF conduct arrests in the West Bank, August 25, 2020

IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Natan Fitoussi laid to rest

The incident, near West Bank city of Tulkarm, was the latest in a series of deadly soldier-on-soldier shooting incidents in the Israeli military.

 Funeral of IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Natan Fitoussi

IDF investigation says flawed organizational culture led to death of two Egoz officers

The commander of the elite unit will finish his term and be barred from a command position for the next two years.

  A soldier from the elite anti-guerrilla unit EGOZ in a training exercise.

IDF to discuss security regulations following deadly friendly fire incident

Military Police to question officer who shot his commanders on Sunday

 IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, Ofer Winter and Israeli army officers inspect the area where two officers Maj. Ofek Aharon and Maj. Itamar Elharar from the Egoz commando unit were killed in a friendly fire accident outside a base in the Jordan Valley on January 13, 2022.

IDF finds Duvdevan troops injured by friendly fire

Two soldiers were seriously injured during a large-scale West Bank arrest raid in September.

THE IDF’S ELITE Duvdevan unit and the Czech Armed Force’s 601st Special Forces Group train together recently in urban-warfare techniques at Tze’elim Army Base in the Negev.