The Israeli military has said it had retrieved the bodies of three hostages in an overnight operation in the northern Gaza Strip’s Jabalia who were abducted during the October 7 attack.
The remains of Israeli hostage Chanan Yablonka, Brazilian-Israeli Michel Nisenbaum and French-Mexican Orion Hernandez Radoux “were rescued” and their families were notified after forensic identification. “Based on verified intelligence in our possession, the hostages were murdered during the October 7 massacre,” the military said in a statement.
Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez were murdered during the October 7 Massacre and were abducted to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.Their bodies were rescued overnight during a joint IDF and ISA operation in Jabaliya, and brought back to Israel.
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Yablonka, 42, and Hernandez Radoux, 32, were abducted from a music festival when Palestinian militants stormed southern Israel from Gaza on October 7, triggering the ongoing war in Gaza. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on social media platform X that “our broken hearts go out to the Yablonka, Hernandez and Nisenbaum families” after the news that their bodies had been recovered.
Nisenbaum, a 59-year-old from the Israeli city of Sderot near Gaza, was last contacted on his way to an army base on the border to pick up his granddaughter on the day of the attack. He had been on the phone with family members when the line was cut. The bodies of his four friends, including former Israeli international footballer Lior Assouline, were found and identified near the vehicle.
Hernandez Radoux was the boyfriend of 22-year-old Israeli-German Shani Louk, who was filmed on October 7 lying face down in the back of a pick-up truck filled with gunmen. The Israeli army announced Monday it had found her body in Jabalia last week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under increasing domestic pressure to secure the release of remaining hostages, said in a statement Friday that “together with the Israeli people, my wife Sara and I bow our heads in deep sorrow and embrace the grieving families in their difficult time”.
Out of the 252 people taken hostage on October 7, 121 hostages remain inside the Gaza Strip, including 37 the army says are dead. The attack resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians. Israel’s retaliatory offensive against Hamas has killed at least 35,800 people in Gaza.
(With agency inputs)
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