Military says it retrieved our bodies of Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila and Shani Louk, who have been killed at Nova music competition.
The Israeli military says the our bodies of three captives who have been killed through the October 7 assaults by Palestinian teams on southern Israel have been recovered from the Gaza Strip.
Navy spokesman Daniel Hagari mentioned in an announcement on Friday that the our bodies of Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila and Shani Louk have been discovered throughout an operation by the military and the nation’s inner safety service, Shin Wager.
Hagari mentioned the three “have been murdered by Hamas whereas escaping the Nova music competition” on October 7 and “their our bodies have been taken into Gaza”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the operation and provided his condolences to the households.
“We are going to return all of our hostages, the residing and the deceased alike,” he mentioned. “I commend our courageous forces whose decided motion has returned the little children to their very own border.”
The announcement was made as Israel continues to bombard Gaza, the place its navy offensive has killed greater than 35,000 Palestinians and spurred a dire humanitarian disaster within the besieged enclave.
Greater than 1,100 folks have been killed in Hamas’s assaults on October 7 whereas 253 have been taken captive. The Israeli envoy to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, advised a UN Safety Council assembly on Thursday that 132 captives remained in Gaza.
Final week, Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a video saying British-Israeli captive Nadav Popplewell’s dying. The group mentioned Popplewell had died of wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike a month in the past.
The video was launched amid rising home stress on the Israeli authorities to safe the discharge of the remaining captives.
Hundreds of Israelis, together with family members and different family members of these nonetheless held in Gaza, have taken to the streets in current days to demand that Netanyahu do extra to free them.
Many have additionally known as on Israel to conform to a ceasefire to carry their family members residence safely.
Reporting from Amman, Jordan, on Friday, Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan mentioned an advocacy group engaged on behalf of the captives’ households would doubtless not be glad by Netanyahu’s assertion on the retrieval of the three captives’ our bodies.
Al Jazeera is reporting from outdoors Israel as a result of it has been banned by the Israeli authorities.
The Convey Them Residence marketing campaign has mentioned Netanyahu “hasn’t carried out sufficient to try to get folks out”, Khan mentioned.
“Count on within the coming hours to see folks out on the streets. We’ve seen these spontaneous protests previously.”
Naama Weinberg, whose cousin Itai Svirsky was kidnapped on October 7 and is believed to have been killed in captivity, final week urged the Israeli authorities to take pressing motion.
“Quickly, even those that managed to outlive this lengthy will not be among the many residing. They should be saved now,” Weinberg mentioned.
“There isn’t any victory and might be no victory with out the return of the hostages.”
Regardless of the immense stress, Netanyahu’s authorities rejected a ceasefire proposal this month that Hamas had agreed to.
