{"id":8151,"date":"2024-09-01T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8151"},"modified":"2024-09-01T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:48:34","slug":"israel-says-identifies-six-hostage-bodies-found-in-gaza-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israel-says-identifies-six-hostage-bodies-found-in-gaza-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says identifies six hostage bodies found in Gaza tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Israeli military said Sunday that it had identified the bodies of six hostages discovered in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, including a US-Israeli and a Russian-Israeli.<\/p>\n<p>Their remains were recovered Saturday &#8220;from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area&#8221; and returned to Israel where they were formally identified, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>It said the dead hostages were Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino, who were all seized by Palestinian militants during Hamas&#8217;s October 7 attack on southern Israel that triggered the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p>Gat was taken from the southern Israeli kibbutz community of Beeri, while the remaining five, ages 23 to 32, were abducted from a music festival near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p>They were among 251 people taken hostage during the October 7 attack, 97 of whom remain captive in Gaza including 33 the Israeli army says are dead.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the six hostages whose remains had been retrieved were alive when taken captive, and military spokesman Daniel Hagari said &#8220;they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They include four men and two women, and two with dual citizenship, Russian-Israeli Lobanov and Goldberg-Polin, who is also a US national and was seen alive in a video released by his captors in April.<\/p>\n<p>The Hamas attack resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s offensive has killed at least 40,691 people in Gaza, according to the territory&#8217;s health ministry. The UN rights office says most of the dead are women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli military said Sunday that it had identified the bodies of six hostages discovered in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, including a US-Israeli and a Russian-Israeli. Their remains were recovered Saturday &#8220;from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area&#8221; and returned to Israel where they were formally identified, the military said. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}