Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz called the fighting in Gaza a “second war of independence.” His comments came after IDF announced the death of several commanders in a major blow to ground operations in Gaza.”Israel’s second independence war is taking a heavy, painful, and difficult price from us,” Gantz wrote on X.The Israeli military announced earlier that eight troops were killed in an ambush in Gaza’s Shejaiya neighbourhood. They included the commander of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, the military’s elite infantry unit.