Suspected Hamas hostage discovered useless in Israel | EUROtoday

An Israeli lengthy suspected of being among the many hostages kidnapped by Hamas in Gaza has been discovered useless in Israel, in accordance with the military. He was already murdered within the Hamas terrorist assault on the Nova pageant.

A sufferer of the Hamas bloodbath has been discovered useless in Israeli territory months after the assault. This was introduced by Israel's armed forces.

Eliakim Livman was murdered within the terrorist assault carried out by the Islamist Hamas from the Gaza Strip on October seventh final yr, the assertion mentioned.

Circumstances of the invention of the physique are unclear

The Israeli authorities had beforehand assumed that Livman had been kidnapped as a hostage by Hamas within the Gaza Strip. He was recognized based mostly on proof on the scene and after a radical investigation by the military, police and forensic specialists.

When requested by the AFP information company, the military didn’t present any details about the place and beneath what circumstances the younger man's physique was discovered. Israeli media reported that Livman was by accident buried with different victims of the Hamas assault on the Nova music pageant.

Security pressure at music pageant

The hostage discussion board mentioned the 24-year-old had labored as a safety guard for the pageant, which happened close to the Gaza border. The useless man's household mentioned he was killed after tending to the wounded on the pageant.

“After more than 200 days and nights of searching, worry, prayers and the tears of tens of thousands of people in Israel, we learned with great sadness that our beloved son is no longer among the living,” the kin mentioned.

Another man's dying confirmed

A number of hours earlier than the announcement of the invention of Livman's physique, the Israeli authorities had already confirmed the dying of Dror Or from Kibbutz Beeri. The 49-year-old was murdered within the Hamas assault on October seventh and his physique was taken to the Gaza Strip, Kibbutz Beeri mentioned.

Or's spouse was additionally killed within the assault. Two of their three youngsters have been kidnapped and launched in November as a part of the one settlement to this point for a ceasefire and the discharge of hostages.

Unprecedented bloodbath

In the Oct. 7 assault, Hamas terrorists killed about 1,200 individuals in Israel and kidnapped about 250 others as hostages within the Gaza Strip. The unprecedented bloodbath triggered the conflict within the Middle East.

Several weeks in the past, Israel assumed that nearly 100 of the roughly 130 hostages remaining after an alternate have been nonetheless alive. But there are actually fears that considerably extra of them might already be useless.