Israeli military recovers bodies of 3 more hostages from Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel — The bodies of three more hostages who were killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks were recovered from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said Friday, as the CIA chief headed to Europe in a bid to revive cease-fire talks and as the top United Nations court ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah.
TEL AVIV, Israel — The bodies of three more hostages who were killed in Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks were recovered from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said Friday, as the CIA chief headed to Europe in a bid to revive cease-fire talks and as the top United Nations court ordered Israel to halt its offensive in Rafah.
Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez were killed on Oct. 7 at the Mefalsim Intersection and their bodies were taken into Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Friday morning, citing intelligence.
Their remains were recovered in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza in a joint overnight operation between the IDF and Israel Security Agency that saw "intense combat" carried out in the area, the military said.
Hanan Yablonka, Orion Hernandez and Michel NisenbaumHostage Families ForumIt comes as Israeli forces continued to expand operations within the enclave, with the IDF battling Hamas in parts of northern and central Gaza it previously said troops had cleared of militant fighters.
Israeli troops have also been pushing deeper into Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than 1 million people sought refuge during the war, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee and deepening a humanitarian crisis there while testing the Biden administration's stated red lines.
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