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The bodies of six Israeli hostages with gunshot wounds retrieved

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Important Takeaways:

  • Fury was palpable at the end of a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Thursday, as protesters demanded a deal to free Israeli hostages in Gaza and grieved this week’s news that the bodies of six captives had been retrieved.
  • Their tragic fate has raised fears that more Israeli hostages will not be retrieved alive either, said one protester.
  • There has been no official explanation yet of how the six died.
  • On Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that initial forensic tests suggest that all six hostages had been shot, but it has not determined whether the gunshot wounds were the cause of death.
  • The IDF said four additional bodies were found next to the bodies of the six hostages, which were believed to be those of the Hamas militants who had been holding the hostages, but that no evidence of shooting was found on their bodies.
  • There are currently 109 Israeli hostages that remain in Gaza, including 36 believed to be dead, according to data from the Israeli Government Press Office.

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Israel’s military has recovered three Israeli hostage bodies from tunnels in Gaza

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Important Takeaways:

  • Shani Louk, 22; Amit Esther Bouskila, 28; and Itzhak Gelerenter, 58, were named as the hostages killed on Oct. 7
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended his condolences to the families in a statement on X, restating his commitment to “return all our hostages, the dead and the martyrs alike.”
  • U.S. military personnel began moving aid to Gaza using a floating pier anchored to the Palestinian territory’s coastline, as aid groups warned of famine in the enclave.
  • U.S. Central Command said aid trucks started moving in using the temporary pier, adding that no U.S. troops went ashore in Gaza.

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