Six weeks after the militant group Hamas stormed into Israel and took 200 hostages, the physique of certainly one of them was recovered from close to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza on Thursday, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) claimed.
The deceased has been recognized as Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old lady who was present process most cancers remedy on the time of her abduction. Her husband was murdered on October 7 in the course of the Hamas rampage.
The IDF mentioned its troopers discovered Weiss’s physique close to the Al-Shifa hospital together with assault rifles and RPGs mentioned to belong to Hamas terrorists who had held her captive.
“To our sorrow, Yehudit was murdered by the terrorists within the Gaza Strip. And we didn’t get to her in time,” IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari was quoted by The Occasions of Israel. He didn’t specify how and when she was killed, including that army, medical and rabbinate personnel had recognized the physique and knowledgeable her household.
She is the second abductee recognized to have died in captivity within the final week, after the IDF confirmed the dying of 19-year-old Noa Marciano on November 14.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned on Wednesday {that a} lady kidnapped into Gaza by Hamas terrorists on October 7 has given delivery in captivity.
In a letter launched by the premier’s workplace on Wednesday, Netanyahu’s spouse Sara instructed US first girl Jill Biden: “One of many kidnapped girls was pregnant. She gave delivery to her child in Hamas captivity. You possibly can solely think about, as I do, what have to be going via that younger mom’s thoughts as she is being held along with her new child by these murderers,” she wrote. “We should name for the quick launch of them and all these being held… The nightmare that started over a month in the past should finish.”
Although she was not recognized, experiences mentioned the lady was a overseas employee in one of many Israeli cities bordering the enclave.
In the meantime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that one of many causes the IDF raided the Al-Shifa hospital was “sturdy indications” that a few of the hostages taken by Hamas-led terrorists throughout their October 7 onslaught have been being held there. Nonetheless, Netanyahu instructed CBS in an interview that the captives had since been faraway from the compound. Israel has intelligence in regards to the hostages. The much less I say about it the higher,” Netanyahu added.
On whether or not a take care of Hamas was within the works, the Prime Minister mentioned Israel was nearer than earlier than we started the bottom motion. “The bottom motion has put stress on Hamas to attain a ceasefire. We’ll have a brief ceasefire if we are able to get our hostages. I don’t assume it serves that objective for me to elaborate additional on that,” he mentioned.
