Overnight, the Israeli government said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages found in Gaza, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The 23-year-old was kidnapped at a rave in southern Israel on October 7. The military said he was one of six hostages killed as Israeli forces prepared to rescue them. The bodies were found in a tunnel under the city of Rafah. The Israeli military identified the others as Ori Danino, 25, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Almog Sarusi, 27, and Alexander Lobanov, 33, all taken hostage in the October 7 raid. The sixth, Carmel Gat, 40, was kidnapped in the nearby farming community of Beeri. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was also an American national. The young man's parents spoke at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago. President Joe Biden had personally followed his case and now says: “I am devastated.” Congresswoman Kamala Harris, a candidate for the succession, comments: “Hamas has even more American blood on its hands.”
The discovery
The Israeli army announced that it had found “several bodies” in the Gaza Strip, which “could be the remains of some hostages.” “At this stage, the military is still operating in the area and is carrying out a process of extraction and identification of the remains that will last several hours,” the statement said. Israel Defense Forces. After the discovery of the bodies, relatives of the hostages announced a large demonstration in the country on Sunday, September 1. “From tomorrow, the country will shake. We ask people to prepare themselves. Israel will stop. Netanyahu has abandoned the hostages: this is now a fact. But the abandonment is over,” they said. This harsh statement comes a few hours after the publication of a very short video from the Hostage Families Forum, in which relatives allude to the possibility that some of the women kidnapped and raped by terrorists became pregnant and even gave birth in the Gaza tunnels. The 20-second video, which is unclear whether it is an act of extreme pressure on the prime minister to abandon his position on the Philadelphia corridor or whether relatives have information about alleged pregnancies or even births in captivity, shows a dark tunnel, heartbreaking female screams, a blurry image of a pregnant woman, the crying of a newborn, and then the writing “more than 9 months have passed.”
Opposition leader to Israeli PM: 'He is crushing the families and people of Israel on his way'
Even Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid points the finger at the Israeli prime minister: “Our sons and daughters are dying in captivity and Netanyahu minces his words. He is not interested in the Philadelphia axis or polio vaccines, but only in the coalition and the maintenance of Smotrich and Ben Gvir.” And then: “Along his way, he crushes the families and the people of Israel. We will continue to support the families of the hostages, to support them and protect them in these difficult times,” Lapid wrote on his X account.
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