JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military announced Friday about its troops. in Gaza The bodies of three Israeli hostages killed in the October 7 Hamas attack were discovered. Among them was German-Israeli Shani Luk.
Photos of 22-year-old Luke's body twisted in the back seat of a pickup truck were sent around the world, revealing the scale of the militant attack on the community in southern Israel. The military identified the remaining two bodies as those of Amit Baskira, a 28-year-old woman, and Itzhak Gellerenter, a 56-year-old man.
All three were killed by Hamas while on the run. nova music festivalMilitants killed hundreds of people at an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Daniel Hagari said at a news conference.
prime minister of israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He called the deaths “heartbreaking” and said: “We will return all the hostages, living and dead.”
The military said the body was found overnight, but gave no further details and gave no immediate details about where the body was located. Israel is operating in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and says it has received information that hostages are being held there.
In the October 7 attack, Hamas-led armed groups killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250 others. About half of the hostages have since been released, most exchanged for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a week-long ceasefire in November.
Israel has announced that about 100 hostages are still being held in the Gaza Strip, and about 30 more bodies remain. Israel's Gaza War The attack killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, Gaza health officials said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed to eliminate Hamas and bring back all the hostages, but little progress has been made. he is facing pressure to resign, the US threatened This is to reduce support for the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The Israelites are divided into two main camps. There are those who want the government to suspend the war and release the hostages, and those who believe the hostages are an unfortunate price to pay for eradicating Hamas. Intermittent negotiations brokered by Qatar, the United States and Egypt have yielded little results.
