Kochi: Israel recovered bodies of two Israeli Americans taken as hostages during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, media reports said.
Judi Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband Gadi Haggai, 72, were murdered by the Mujahideen Brigades group attacking Kibbutz Nir Oz, the reports said.
Haggai was also a Canadian citizen.
The bodies, recovered from the southern Khan Younis area of Gaza overnight, were brought back to Israel for forensic identification.
Fiftysix hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum called on decision-makers to do everything they can to agree a new ceasefire deal with Hamas to secure the return of all the remaining hostages.
Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas killing 1,200 people and taking 251 as hostages on October 7, 2023.
At least 54,607 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
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