While the fighting is particularly violent this Saturday in the north and south of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army announces that it has repatriated the body of an Israeli recovered in Gaza, where it had been taken by Hamas on October 7 after having been killed in the attack carried out by the Palestinian movement in southern Israel.
The body of Ron Benjamin, 53, was found with those of three hostages (Shani Louk, Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter) whose bodies had been repatriated on Friday, said the spokesperson for the Israeli army, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.
Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German-Israeli woman, appeared in a video on social media lying on her stomach, apparently unconscious and half-naked, in the back of a pickup truck in the Gaza Strip. Amit Buskila was 27 years old and Itzhak Gelerenter was 56 years old at the time of the attack.
More than 120 hostages still held
Of the 252 people taken as hostages on October 7, 124 are still detained in Gaza, of whom 37 are dead according to the Israeli army.
The surprise attack carried out from the Gaza Strip by Hamas commandos in southern Israel resulted in the death of more than 1,170 people on the Israeli side, the majority civilians, according to an AFP count based on official figures. Israelis. More than 360 people were killed at the site of the Nova music festival alone, held in southern Israel, very close to the border with the Gaza Strip.
In response, Israel launched an all-out offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has already left more than 35,000 dead, according to data from the Health Ministry of the Hamas-led Gaza government.