Israel said it has discovered a number of bodies in Gaza during combat, and that its military was carrying out a process to extract and identify the bodies, which will take several hours.
It asked that the public refrain from spreading rumors as to the identities of the bodies.
US President Joe Biden said his staff was in contact with Israel and confirmed that they have discovered bodies in Gaza.
Israel’s health ministry has confirmed report that the six hostages, whose bodies were found near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on August 31, had been shot dead by Hamas radicals, the Israeli foreign ministry said.
ReplyDelete"In the examination that was conducted at the National Center of Forensic Medicine, it was established that the six hostages had been killed by Hamas radicals as a result of several point-blank shots," it said on its X page, adding that the six had died presumably two or three days before the examination, or on August 20 or 30.