The number of Israeli soldiers killed during ground operations inside the Gaza Strip rose to 87 on Thursday. That is the highest number of army deaths in a military operation since the 2006 Lebanon War, when 121 soldiers were killed, according to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). The war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7. More than 1,200 people were killed in Israel, most of them civilians. Another 240 people were taken to Gaza as hostages. The number of Palestinians killed in two months of figh…