Israel Defense Forces confirmed the recovery and identity of the body of Israeli hostage Ron Benjamin.
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the body of an Israeli hostage, Ron Benjamin, was identified in Gaza on Saturday after it was recovered the previous day.On October 7, 2023, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, killing some 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Israel then subsequently launched its heaviest airstrikes against Gaza. About half of the hostages, meanwhile, were freed during a temporary ceasefire in November.
'I was a bit scared but I thought it's just another round of missiles and rockets—unfortunately we are used to that in Israel,' Shay told Newsweek.Shay, 25, was in Dubai returning from a vacation in the Philippines when she was alerted of the events on October 7 as she made calls to her mother and her sister in an effort to locate her father. She had since been told by the IDF that her father was among the hostages taken on that day.
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