Cases of a 56-year-old teacher, two reservists and two conscripts killed in action during the October 7 attack
Israeli forces on Wednesday recovered the bodies of five more hostages killed in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and held in Gaza since then, the Israeli military announced.
Their bodies were recovered from the Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces launched new raids this week, and returned to Israel.
The bodies of five Israeli hostages who were murdered on October 7 by Hamas and held hostage in Gaza were rescued by the IDF and brought to Israel for burial.
May their memory be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/yOeBgkcm5x
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) July 25, 2024
Chilling: IDF soldiers saying Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, upon discovering the bodies of the hostages slaughtered by Hamas in Gaza 💔 pic.twitter.com/B5NawZYK36
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) July 25, 2024
Maya Goren, 56, a kindergarten teacher, was killed in the attack on the Nir Oz kibbutz, according to IDF Radio, one of the communities worst hit by the deadly Hamas offensive in southern Israel that sparked the devastating war in the Gaza Strip. .
Goren had been killed along with her husband and her body had been taken by Palestinian fighters to Gaza.
The other four hostages were two reservists and two conscripts who were killed in combat during the October 7 attack, the military said.
During an IDF operation led by ISA field analysts and coordinators, the bodies of the murdered hostage Maya Goren, and of the fallen soldiers held captive MSG (Res.) Oren Goldin, SSGT Tomer Ahimas, SGT Kiril Brodski and SGM (Res.) Ravid Aryeh Katz were rescued from the Khan Yunis… pic.twitter.com/UEQ2B4WCPa
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 25, 2024
They are 51-year-old Ravid Katz, also from the Nir Oz kibbutz, who was killed fighting Hamas fighters, 33-year-old Oren Goldin, also killed in the battle at the Nir Yitzhak kibbutz, and Kirill Brodsky, 19, and Tomer Ahimas , 20, who were also killed on October 7 in the fighting near Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad hailed the Israeli military for carrying out an “important rescue mission”.
“We will continue to fight Hamas until it is defeated and we are committed to bringing the hostages back to their homes,” Gallad added in a statement from his office.
1/3 of the hostages are dead
The five whose bodies were recovered were among 120 hostages still being held in Gaza.
Israel has declared about a third of them dead, based on forensic findings, intelligence, interrogations of fighters it has captured, videos and testimony from freed hostages.
In his address to the US Congress yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government is actively involved in intensive efforts to free the remaining hostages, which he is confident, as he noted, will succeed.
An Israeli delegation will attend talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages brokered by the US, Egypt and Qatar next week, an Israeli official said yesterday.
Hamas seeks cease-fire deal to end Gaza war, but Netanyahu says war cannot end until Hamas is defeated
Source :Skai
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