the body of an Israeli hostage identified, two days after that of his father, announces the army

Hamza al-Zayadna and his father Youssef were both kidnapped during the October 7 attacks in Israel.

Israel has identified the remains of Israeli hostage Hamza al-Zayadna, whose body was discovered in the Gaza Strip and repatriated along with that of his father Youssef, the Israeli army announced on Friday January 10. “Army representatives notified the family” Zayadna that their son Hamza, who was held hostage in the Gaza Strip, “was killed in captivity by Hamas”, she wrote in a press release.

The army announced on Wednesday that the body of Youssef al-Zayadna, his father, had been found in a tunnel in the Rafah region in the south of the Gaza Strip and brought back to Israel. The fate of his son remained uncertain, with the army initially declaring that she had “makes discoveries” Who “raise great concern for is known.”

During the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, Youssef and Hamza al-Zayadna, Bedouins aged 53 and 22 respectively, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Holit, in the southwest of Israel. Israel, where they were participating in the olive harvest, according to Israeli authorities.

Aïcha, 17, and Bilal, 18, sister and brother of Hamza, also kidnapped and held in the Gaza Strip, were released on November 30, 2023on the last day of the only truce observed so far since the start of the war.