What we know about the remaining Israeli captives being held in Gaza
Al Jazeera
On Tuesday, the Israeli army announced it had retrieved the bodies of six Israelis held in Gaza.
The retrieval of the bodies of six Israeli captives by the Israeli military from Gaza this week has increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of those who remain.
On October 7, 239 people were taken captive during the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel. As part of a temporary truce in November, 105 captives were released by Hamas in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli army has led operations to retrieve others since then while three captives who apparently escaped were mistakenly killed by Israeli armed forces in December when they were trying to return home.
The Israeli army said the bodies of the six people retrieved on Tuesday were located during an overnight military operation in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The army said the bodies were recovered from behind a false wall in a tunnel in an area that had previously been designated a humanitarian zone.
