In a horrific display of psychological warfare, Hamas recently distributed a video on Telegram showing six hostages who were brutally murdered by the group last week.
Hamas declared that it would soon release what it called the hostages’ “final message to the world” before they were killed later that day. The footage included brief segments where the hostages spoke directly into the camera.
This past weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (ISA) managed to locate and retrieve the remains of the hostages, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Master Sergeant Ori Danino, from an underground tunnel.
According to forensic experts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, the six hostages were likely murdered between 48 to 72 hours prior to the examination (on Thursday or early Friday morning).
On Motzoei Shabbos, the IDF and ISA conducted a successful operation to locate and bring back the bodies of the hostages from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, subsequently returning them to Israel.
These individuals had been kidnapped on October 7th, 2023, and were killed within the last two days by Hamas operatives in Gaza. Their bodies were discovered 20 meters below ground without any prior intelligence. The recovery took place approximately a kilometer from the tunnel where hostage Farhan al-Qadi was rescued the previous week.
The autopsies of the six hostages, whose remains were recovered on Motzoei Shabbos, revealed that they had been shot in the head and other areas. No signs of torture were detected.
{Matzav.com Israel}
