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Free Malaysia Today
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Bodies of 3 hostages recovered in Gaza says Israeli army
Of the 251 hostages seized by Hamas, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. (EPA Images pic) JERUSALEM : The Israeli military said today that it had recovered the bodies of three hostages in Gaza more than 20 months after they were abducted by Hamas rebels. 'In a special operation… the bodies of the hostages Ofra Keidar, Yonatan Samerano and staff sergeant Shay Levinson were recovered from the Gaza Strip yesterday,' the military said in a statement. Samerano's father had announced earlier today that his son's body, which was taken into Gaza after he was murdered in a kibbutz by the territory on Oct 7, 2023, had been recovered by the Israeli army. He paid tribute to 'the brave soldiers of the IDF (Israeli military) and the Shin Bet' security service in a message posted on Instagram. Keidar, a 71-year-old mother of three, was also killed in a kibbutz and abducted, while 19-year-old tank commander Levinson 'engaged and fought terrorists on the morning of October 7 and fell in combat,' a statement from the military said. The attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel in October 2023 resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Of the 251 hostages seized during the assault, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 55,908 people, also mostly civilians, according to the Gaza health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. The UN considers these figures reliable.
Morocco World
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Morocco World
Israel Appeases its Public by Recovering Three Dead Hostages
Rabat — The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) announced on Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of three Israeli hostages—Ofra Keidar, Yonatan Samerani, and soldier Shay Levinson—who were held postmortem in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Western media outlets promptly flooded their coverage with the faces and names of the deceased, accompanied by solemn tributes for the loss of human lives. Missing from their narrative, however, was the fact that Israel killed over 33 Palestinians in the besieged enclave yesterday as well. Although Israel could have secured the release of its captives repeatedly throughout the last 20 months, it has chosen instead to prolong its genocidal campaign in Gaza and deepen its occupation—while hypocritically maintaining a public posture of seeking peace and the return of hostages. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Israel's broader conflict with Iran would actually serve its goals in Gaza. 'We are getting closer, step by step, to our objectives: defeating Hamas and bringing our hostages home…I am convinced that the operation in Iran is helping us achieve our objective in Gaza,' he insisted. Meanwhile, Hamas has consistently affirmed its readiness to release all Israeli hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu has rejected those terms outright, choosing instead to continue a genocide that has already killed more than 56,000 Palestinians—most of them women and children. Tens of thousands more are unaccounted for, buried beneath the endless rubble of homes, hospitals, and shelters obliterated by Israeli bombardment. Although Israel recently announced a drawdown of occupation forces in Gaza, ostensibly to prepare for broader regional escalation, the killing continues. As international attention shifts toward Israel's confrontation with Iran, Palestinians in Gaza now face the highest risk of dying simply while searching for food at the Israeli–US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The GHF began operating in late May, following a three-month total blockade on aid to a population enduring a slow, deliberate genocide for nearly two years. Since its launch, IOF attacks have killed more than 400 Palestinians at or near GHF distribution points, and wounded nearly 2,000. Human rights groups and Palestinian civilians alike understand that these aid sites function as death traps, but continue to go out of sheer desperation. After systematically obliterating Gaza's healthcare system—through relentless bombings, raids, and the targeted killing and abduction of medical staff—Israel has enforced a total blockade on essential medicines. With fuel banned from entering the Strip, even ambulances in Gaza City have ceased to operate. Thousands of wounded Palestinians are now left to suffer and die in silence, denied the most basic means of survival. Of the 250 Israelis taken captive in October 2023, at least 50 remain in Gaza, with only around 20 believed to be alive. Meanwhile, Israel holds over 10,000 Palestinians in its prisons under systematic torture and well-documented human rights abuses. Among them are approximately 400 children and nearly 4,000 detainees held without charge or trial—branded as 'prisoners' for no other crime than belonging to a land that Israel and Western powers decided to own.
Gulf Today
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Today
Israeli army says bodies of 3 hostages recovered in Gaza
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of three hostages in Gaza more than 20 months after they were abducted by the Palestinian group Hamas. "In a special operation... the bodies of the hostages Ofra Keidar, Yonatan Samerano and Staff Sergeant Shay Levinson were recovered from the Gaza Strip yesterday," the military said in a statement. The attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Israel in October 2023 resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Of the 251 hostages seized during the assault, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead. Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 55,908 people, also mostly civilians, according to the Gaza health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. The UN considers these figures reliable. Agence France-Presse
Irish Independent
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Irish Independent
Israelis recover bodies of three people killed in October 7 attack
Hostage families have repeatedly called for a deal to release them all The Israeli military said yesterday that it had recovered the remains of three hostages held in the Gaza Strip. The military identified the remains as those of Yonatan Samerano (21), Ofra Keidar (70) and Shay Levinson (19). All three were killed during Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack into Israel that ignited the ongoing war.
AsiaOne
23-06-2025
- Politics
- AsiaOne
Israeli forces recover bodies of three hostages from Gaza, World News
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of three hostages which had been held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian militant group Hamas' 2023 attack, the military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday (June 22). The hostages were identified as civilians Ofra Keidar and Yonatan Samerano, and soldier Shay Levinson. All were killed on the day of the attack, on Oct 7, 2023, the military said. With their retrieval, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, only 20 of whom are believed to be alive. The abduction of Samerano, 21 at the time of his death, by a man later identified by Israeli officials as a worker at the UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, was caught on CCTV. Around 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, according to Israeli authorities. The subsequent Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza has since killed more than 55,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run strip, displaced almost the entire 2.3 million population, plunged the enclave into humanitarian crisis and left much of the territory in ruins. [[nid:666707]]
