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The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.

The military identified the other two bodies as those of a 28-year-old woman, Amit Buskila, and a 56-year-old man, Itzhak Gelerenter.

All three were killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival, an outdoor dance party near the Gaza border, military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said at a news conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deaths “heartbreaking,” saying, “We will return all of our hostages, both the living and the dead.”

The military said the bodies were found overnight, without elaborating, and did not give immediate details on where they were located. Israel has been operating in the Gaza Strip's southern city of Rafah, where it says it has intelligence that hostages are being held.

Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and abducted around 250 others in the Oct. 7 attack. Around half of those hostages have since been freed, most in swaps for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a weeklong cease-fire in November.

Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more. Israel's war in Gaza since the attack has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials.

Netanyahu has vowed to both eliminate Hamas and bring all the hostages back, but he’s made little progress. He faces pressure to resign, and the US has threatened to scale back its support over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
A Palestine🇵🇸 statehood will bring peace to the Middle East region but the Israeli and her Western allies will always veto such proposal@ the United Nations Security Council.

Zonefree:

How to identify a true leader.

In Nigeria, Tinubu and APC will ask us to pray for God's intervention.

dalass:
Hope Palestinian supporters are paying attention

udemzyudex:
Lol.
As it stand, there's nothing anyone in the world will say now, Israel will turn that Rafah into rubbles.

Jovi10:
A good leader does not use emotions to rule. So far the constant bombing of Gaza has proved useless in locating the hostages. There's no way they keep bombing and leveling buildings to the ground that it won't affect the hostages as well. He's not a good leader, a good leader ways every option before acting. He used emotions to make decisions and so far no result only more killings of innocent children and women which has led to widespread protest from the entire world against the genocide acts . Same thing with zelensky of Ukraine he's not a good leader as well.