Israel is mourning the deaths of six hostages at the hands of Hamas, officials said on Saturday.
The hostages had been “brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them,” IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in an update on Sunday morning of initial assessments.
“During this painful and difficult time, my thoughts and my heart are with the families of the hostages who were killed,” Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant said on Saturday.
He named the six hostages killed as Ori Danino, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, and American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.
Gallant said the hostages had been recently “murdered in cold blood,” not long before the IDF and ISA—who were fighting Hamas terrorists in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza strip—found them.
They have since been recovered and sent back to Israel for burial.
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