Israel has verified the deaths of six more hostages captured during the 7 October attack by Hamas, stating they were murdered by their captors shortly before their bodies were discovered on Saturday in a tunnel complex under Gaza.
“According to our initial estimation, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short time before we reached them,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a military spokesperson, informed reporters in an early-morning briefing.
The bodies were found during fighting in Rafah, approximately a kilometre from a tunnel where another hostage, Qaid Farhan Alkadi, was rescued by Israeli forces on Tuesday. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, another IDF spokesperson, mentioned that the tunnel where the bodies were found was “a few
