Illustrative image (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on May 24 that it recovered the bodies of three more hostages from the northern Gaza Strip in an overnight operation.
Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59, were all killed in the October 7 Hamas-led surprise attack from Gaza, according to new “reliable intelligence” discovered amid the war, the IDF said in a statement. Until recently, there had been no information as to their status and they were believed to be alive.
The bodies of the three were taken from the Mefalsim area, according to the IDF, at the same location where Hamas fighters took four more hostages whose bodies were recovered last week from a tunnel in the Jabalia refugee camp.
The IDF said that the bodies of the three hostages were recovered in a joint operation carried out by the military and Shin Bet, following the analysis of “precise intelligence” that had been obtained in recent days.
After the bodies were identified at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute overnight, family members were notified by military representatives, the IDF added.
It is reported that more than 120 hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 attack remain in Gaza -not all of them are thought to be alive- after 105 civilians were released from captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that.
Three hostages have been allegedly freed by Israeli troops alive, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including at least three who were mistakenly killed by the IDF.
Hamas warned more than once that Israeli military operations in Gaza were threatening remaining hostages there. Still, the IDF expanded its operations earlier this month launching an offensive in the area of Rafah in southern Gaza, which hosts more than 1,4 displaced Palestinians, and another in Jabalia.
On May 23, Hamas confirmed that it is holding Colonel Asaf Hamami, 41, captured on October 7, who the IDF had previously reported was killed in the attacks that day.
The group’s military wing, the Izz Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, revealed that Hamami had been wounded during his capture.
Hamami, the commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade, was believed to have been killed fighting in the defense of Kibbutz Nirim. A video released by Hamas does not specify whether the officer is still alive.
His death was declared by the chief rabbi in December, based on findings obtained by the IDF in Gaza, allowing his family to have a funeral according to Jewish law.
Israel’s failure to resolve the issue of hostages though military or diplomatic means highlights the lack of a real plan for the war in Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 35,000 Palestinians and left around 80,000 others wounded.
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if some one really imagine that israel’s motto is something other than to destroy the palestinians to the last person – you haven’t listened at all to what the israeli leadership has directly said. their goal has been to destroy gaza for decades. and now it has been frankly said that settlements are to be built inside gaza. as they expand, eventually there will be no gaza. all this is done under the guise of the holocaust.
they want the offshore oil and new beachfront property. even kushner and other oligarchs are lined up to build there, right over the bodies of dead palestinians.
“it’s about the shekels, stupid!”
yes. and it is a fight between 2 of the world’s top supremacist ideologies. 🐷 🐷🐷
it appears that israel does have a plan. it is not the plan we are told, it is the elimination of all palestinians. this is only the beginning, the west bank is next. the destruction of hamas, in media in the occupied west, is their excuse, while they pursue their real goal. the continued lie that hamas hides behind civilians is fully accepted by the gullible as a reasonable excuse for slaughter and destruction.
now the us congess is attacking non-profits for supporting palestine. the israeli stooges there are slowly but surely killing any semblance of constitutional rights. it is led by the usual suspects, all israeli owned traitors, the same ones who threaten the icc. soon, we will all be palestinians.
i read somewhere that thousands of americans in every state are preparing for the elimination of the jew bastards , if the election is stolen again every prominent jew will be killed
if the colonel is alive, slice him and dice him. his background in the jewish army, idf, would be enough reason.
the jews hate palestinians because they are the chosen ones from the bible. not the filthy immigrant jews
they milked the hollow hoax to the last drop
arabs who rely on the reed staff of the shiites will always lose. for them, palestinians are a stick to beat the dog aka useful idiots.
if we can just kill all the rats of gaza and the so called west bank we can all live fairlypeacefully.
kick a pallyrat in the neck, they don’t deserve their own country ever. stomp an antifa-cuck holding a pallyrat flag on every university and at every protest rally. deport every dirty pallyrat from the usa & europe to jordan where they belong.
the idf colonel is a prize grab! he will have lots of valuable information to reveal to his captors. i bet he sang like a canary! questioning again and again over days and weeks this senior member of the idf will have told everything he knew.
strange israel only seem to find dead hostages, never alive ones. strange indeed