Click to see full-size image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
On December 15, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that its troops had recovered the bodied of three hostages who were taken to the Gaza Strip by Palestinian fighters during the October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
One of the bodies belonged to civilian hostage Elia Toledano, 28, who was captured from the Supernova music festival near the settlement of Re’im during the October 7 surprise attack on Israel.
Toledano’s body was retrieved from Gaza during an operation carried out by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the 551st Brigade. After his body was brought back to Israel and identified by medical and rabbinical authorities, his family was notified. There were no details on how he died or when.
Elia Toledano. Via X.
The other two bodies belonged to soldiers, Cpl. Nik Beizer, 19, and Sgt. Ron Sherman, 19. The IDF said that it had informed the soldiers’ families.
Beizer was reportedly serving at the Erez Crossing, while Sherman was situated in another base next to Gaza. Sherman was spotted alive in a video from the Strip that surfaced online a few hours after he was captured, according to Hebrew media.
Cpl. Nik Beizer and Sgt. Ron Sherman. Via X.
Some 134 hostages remain in Gaza out of the 240 taken during the October 7 attack, which was led by the Hamas Movement.
A temporary ceasefire from November 24 to December 1 saw the release of 105 civilian hostages, Israeli women and children and foreign nationals, held by Hamas. Four hostages were released prior to the temporary ceasefire, a hostage was released in late November and one was allegedly freed by IDF troops.
The bodies of eight hostages have also been recovered, including the last three. The IDF has so far confirmed the deaths of some 20 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
While operations in Gaza helped the IDF collect some intelligence on the hostages, they were not without a cost. The IDF announced the death of another soldier in Gaza on December 15, pushing the toll of slain troops in ground operations there to 117.
The soldier was identified as Sgt. Oz Shmuel Aradi, a 19-year-old soldier with the Combat Engineering Corps’ 603rd Battalion, from the settlement of Hatzor near Ashdod. He was killed in action in the southern part of the Strip on December 14.
In addition, four reservist soldiers were seriously injured in fighting yesterday across the Palestinian enclave, according to the IDF.
Oz Shmuel Aradi. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
After the temporary ceasefire in Gaza, Israel ended indirect talks with Hamas on the remaining hostages. However, recent reports in Hebrew and Arab media indicate that the talks had resumed with help from Qatar and the United States who helped broker the first agreement.
zionists are good propagandists, they announce one or two deaths, one or two seriously injured now and then. this way it looks, that they are telling about their casualties honestly. reality is, that there are at least tens of dead and hundreds of wounded.
sinwar is also a bloodthirsty homosexual pedomaniac idiot. period.
pithy s#it there shlomo.
can’t be. he isn’t a jew.
just like you.
rather than exchange isreali hostages for the hundreds, if not thousands, of palestinian children being kept and abused in isreali gaols, the isreali apartheid regime decided to eliminate the bargaining chips, ie: the hostages. this is what happens when one allows fake jews to run a jewish country.
even worse “when one allows fake jews to run a non jewish country”…example $lumville ussa that is making this genocide possible. without the ussan tax cattle and the pentacon golem the abomination israhell would be smashed in weeks. it is however only a matter of time before that happens obviously.
it depends. when the us can no longer dig the isreali apartheid regime from its holes, the regime might stop digging. the usadmin, its nato poodles, and un organisations no longer fit for purpose, are the problem in today’s world. we in blighty, the us, and europe need to take back our countries before it’s too late.
poor besterds. i bet they were the first hostages to die by drowning due to the war criminals pumping of seawater into gaza’s tunnel network.
only a chosenite supremacist jew would imagine that hamas has no sealed chambers and flood doors installed in its underground network. it’s basic mining procedure that even the viet cong used to whack anglonazi$ in their vietnam tunnel system. the jew is so smart that he never understands his own ignorance and hubris.
these hostages are just a collateral damage for satanyahoo. this has nothing to do with liberating hostages, it’s all about expelling arabs from “jewish land”. when nazis tried to do that, they were trialed at nurenberg and executed. we’ll see how many idf criminals and jewish politicians will hang for crimes against humanity.
the stacks of dead occupation baby killing idf thugs is getting ever higher. how many more will be whacked and stacked by gallant palestinian freedom fighters before the khazar populous tears der fuehrer nut’nyahoo to shreds?
many more.
oops…….the reverse hannibal directive in action
we are loosing. bad.
update: al jazeera is now reporting that the idf found the 3 hostages who had either been abandoned or had fled their captors. and then the idf killed the hostages. apparently the idf viewed them as a threat. begs the question if the idf is happy to kill unarmed israelis what limits they have on killing unarmed palestinians. the whole idf organisation should be treated as a criminal entity and its senior officers subject to international arrest warrants and prosecution.
the idf executed women and children who were sheltering in a school. their atrocities know no bounds. these soldiers are either trigger happy or scared shitless firing at anything that moves, including their own people and other idf. lot’s more friendly fire is needed imo.
sionisti si ich pre istotu zabili sami. otázkou je prečo asi? odpoveď je vo hviezdach.
now confirmed amerikan inferior white trash moron hillbilly