The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday they had found the bodies of three more hostages during an operation in northern Gaza.
Hanan Yablonka, Michelle Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez were killed in the October 7 massacre and abducted to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.
Their bodies were retrieved in Jabaliya last night in a joint operation by the IDF and the Israeli army and brought back to Israel.
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The IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet and Shabak) said in a statement:
The bodies of hostages Hanan Yablonka, Michelle Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez were rescued overnight during a joint operation between the Israel Defense Forces and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISA).
According to verified information received by us, the hostages were killed during the massacre on October 7 and were abducted by Hamas terrorists from Mefalsim crossing into Gaza.
The bodies of the hostages were rescued overnight during a joint operation between the IDF and the international terrorist organization Yemen in Jabaria, based on precise intelligence obtained and analyzed over the past few days by the IDF Intelligence Directorate for Hostages and Missing Persons in cooperation with the international terrorist organization Yemen. At the start of the operation, heavy fighting occurred in the area.
“After identification procedures were carried out by medical personnel from the Israel National Institute of Forensic Sciences and the Israel Police, IDF representatives notified the family today. The IDF and ISA offer their deepest condolences to the family.”
An IDF spokesman called on citizens to refrain from spreading unfounded rumors and fake news and to listen to official statements.
The Israel Defense Forces and the International Israeli Armed Forces continue to deploy all operational and intelligence resources to fulfill the nation’s overriding mission of rescuing all hostages.
The Israel Times Added:
Radu, a French-Mexican, was the boyfriend of Shani Rouk, one of four hostages whose bodies were found in Jabaliya last week. Hernández Radu and Yablonka, along with Rouk and the bodies of two more hostages found last week, were attending the Supernova music festival near the border town of La’im when they were attacked by Hamas terrorists.
They fled to Mefalsim area, where they were abducted by terrorists.
Nisenbaum, from Sderot, was kidnapped along with other hostages in the Mefalsim neighborhood. She had been driving to the IDF Gaza Strip base near Reim to pick up her granddaughter, who was staying with her son-in-law, a non-commissioned officer, but never made it.
Mefalsim is the community where a Palestinian terrorist notoriously called the parents of a murdered Jewish woman on October 7 using her phone and boasted that he had killed 10 Jews as part of a Hamas terror attack.
The removal of the bodies reduces the number of Israeli hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip to 125, of whom at least 60 are believed to be alive, according to an official hostage count released by an Israeli government spokesman.
Israel has vowed to press ahead with its military operation in Gaza to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages.
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