India, July 8 -- At least five Israeli soldiers were killed and 14 others were injured after a roadside bomb exploded in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, media reports said.

The slain soldiers were identified as Staff Sgt. Meir Shimon Amar, 20, from Jerusalem, Sgt. Moshe Nissim Frech, 20, from Jerusalem, Staff Sgt. Noam Aharon Musgadian, 20, from Jerusalem, Staff Sgt. Moshe Shmuel Noll, 21, from Beit Shemesh,Sgt. First Class (res.) Benyamin Asulin, 28, from Haifa.

According to reports, Amar, Frech, Musgadian, and Noll served in the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion.

According to an initial IDF probe, the infantry soldiers were hit by a bomb planted by terror operatives on the side of a road shortly after 10 p.m. during ground op...