Israeli military says bodies of five captives retrieved from Gaza
Al Jazeera
They were previously declared dead by the army and their bodies were recovered from southern Gaza.
The Israeli military has announced that it recovered the bodies of five captives during an operation in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The army said on Thursday that the bodies of kindergarten teacher Maya Goren as well as soldiers Tomer Ahimas, Kiril Brodski, Ravid Aryeh Katz and Oren Goldin – the latter two reservists – had been returned to Israel.
Goren, 56, was killed in the kibbutz of Nir Oz, one of the communities targeted in the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on October 7, according to Israeli Army Radio.
The others were killed in combat on October 7, the army said. Katz was a member of the Nir Oz kibbutz security team.
The five bodies were retrieved on Wednesday from the area of Khan Younis, where Israeli forces launched new raids this week.
