2023-11-16 23:11:00
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported this Thursday that they found near the Gazan hospital of Al-Shifa the lifeless body of Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman who had been taken hostage by Hamas during its October 7 offensive. According to the Israeli military, Weiss was “killed” by the terrorist group.
The IDF indicated that the troops They found the remains next to Hamas military equipmentamong which there were assault rifles and missile launchers, in a building located in the vicinity of the hospital, the scene of a “precise operation” by the Israeli army during the early hours of Wednesday.
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The body of the hostage, kidnapped in Kibbutz Beeri, “was extracted by Israeli army troops from a structure adjacent to the Al-Shifa hospital, in the Gaza Strip, and transferred to Israeli territory,” a military statement indicated. Once the victim was identified, Both the Police and the army itself notified his family of the death.
“The IDF sends its deepest condolences to the family”stated the troops, who emphasize that their main “mission at the national level” is to “locate the missing and return the hostages to their homes”, which is why they are carrying out a military operation in Gaza.
Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Weiss was “murdered” by the kidnappers. “Yehudit was murdered by terrorists in the Gaza Strip and we did not manage to arrive in time” to rescue her, he lamented. However, the IDF did not provide further details regarding how or when the hostage died.
Weiss, a mother of five who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, was a retiree who worked in a kindergarten and in the dining room of the Beeri kibbutz, from where she was kidnapped on October 7. Her husband had already been found dead. inside his home by the Israeli forces themselves when they arrived in the area, the newspaper indicated The Times of Israel. The Hostage Families Forum assured that the woman’s children survived.
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According to the newspaper Haaretz, the door to Weiss and her husband’s safe room was shot during the attack. In addition to this, in a document left by the Hamas terrorists in the house the phrases were written in Arabic and Hebrew: “I’ll kill you”, “Take off your pants”, “You are a prisoner”, “We have hostages” y “We will kill hostages”.
Hamas launched an unprecedented offensive once morest Israel in early October, leaving nearly 1,200 dead and another 240 hostages. The IDF launched a bloody counteroffensive in the Gaza Strip once morest Palestinian militia structures, which has already left more than 11,500 dead. According to the terrorist group, dozens of hostages have been killed in Israeli bombings for weeks.
Israel assures that the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Strip, houses a Hamas strategic and military center, while the Islamist group denies this accusation. As a result of these beliefs, the army launched a “selective” and “complex” operation on Wednesday in the compound, located in the north of the Palestinian territory, and on Thursday it carried out a thorough search of the hospital buildings, a military statement indicated. .
On Wednesday he assured that in the raid found “ammunition, weapons and military equipment” and on Thursday he noted that on seized computers there were “images related to the hostages.” The UN estimates that around 2,300 people (patients, doctors and displaced people) remain in the hospital.
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