Four soldiers in the Armored Corps 401st Brigade's 52nd Battalion were killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Monday.
The soldiers were identified as: Staff Sergeant Uri Lamed, aged 20, from Tel Mond, Staff Sergeant Gadi Cotal, aged 20, from Afikim, and Sergeant Amit Arye Regev, aged 19, from Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut.
On Tuesday, the fourth soldier was identified as Lieutenant Matan Abramovitz, aged 21, from Ganei Tikva.
The incident occurred during a Hamas guerrilla attack on an army shelter in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The terrorists threw an explosive device into a tank that was standing outside the shelter, which caught fire - as a result, the tank's crew members were killed and one other soldier was wounded.