Israeli Security Minister Yoav Galant acknowledged on Sunday that Tel Aviv paid “extremely high prices” during its battles in Gaza, against the backdrop of the announcement of the killing of 11 soldiers, 8 of whom were in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

This came in a speech when he visited the forces deployed on the Gaza Strip border near Rafah, according to a statement by the media office of the Israeli Ministry of Security.

Gallant said: "Here on the border in Rafah, I came to closely examine the difficult events that occurred yesterday, in which we lost 11 fighters, 8 of whom were here in this sector in the Rafah area."