Israelis held hostage in Gaza - part 5

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hadar-goldins-comrades-escorted-his-body-out-of-gaza-earlier-today/
“IDF reservists, members of Lt. Hadar Goldin’s company when he was killed and abducted by Hamas in 2014, traveled today to the Gaza Strip in order to escort his body back to Israel after it was returned by the terror group.
The military releases images showing Goldin’s comrades alongside the coffin with his remains, 11 years after he was killed during the 2014 Gaza War.”
I cannot imagine what his family must be experiencing today after 11 long years with no closure.

Times of Israel “After 11 years in Gaza, body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin confirmed to be back in Israel”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-9-2025/
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Apologies, posted on the wrong thread.

The Prime minister's office has confirmed that Israel has received a body that Hamas claims is that of Lt. Hadar Goldin.

Netanyahu said earlier that tests to verify his identity will begin “immediately” after his body is handed over.

Reuters are reporting that Hamas' armed wing said it would hand over the body of an Israeli soldier, Hadar Goldin, who was killed in 2014, at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Sunday.

It said Goldin's body had been located in a tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

Thanks Glaswegian- the hostage in question is Hadar Goldin, who was taken in 2014. His body has been held for 11 years. His family have had a visit from the military this evening, but no more than that has been published at present

It appears another hostage has been located, and a family have been visited at home by the IDF chief.
However it is not thought that there will be a hostage return tonight, and therefore a family waits..
alongside 4 other families hoping.

764 days
5 hostages
bring them all home now

until the last hostage

Reported in France 24 this morning:

Israel confirmed the remains given back Friday night were of an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the militants' Oct. 7, 2023 attack that started the war. The hostage body was identified as that of Lior Rudaeff, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's office.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251108-israel-identifies-returned-remains-as-israel-argentine-hostage-killed-at-start-of-war

I understand it is now Shabbat and therefore none of you will be able to read the news online etc.

The Times of Israel is reporting that there may be a hostage returned tonight, as someone was ' found ' today, this is what is being reported:
'After Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s announcement earlier today that it will hand over the body of a hostage, PIJ and fellow terror group Hamas specify they will do so at 9 p.m. Israel time.
According to Hamas, the body — it is not specified whose — was found today in Khan Younis.'

I hope there is a family receiving the phone call tonight.

763 days
6 hostages
bring them all home now

until the last hostage

762 days
6 hostages
bring them all home now

until the last hostage

I hope that Joshua Mollel's family find a measure of comfort in their grief now that they have him home.

Identified in times of Israel as Joshua Mollel.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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i saw the video of the brutal attack on him right at the beginning of the war, and it stuck with me. Heartbreaking. May his family find comfort and healing.

Times of Israel report that the body Hamas returned to Israel last night has been identified by forensic experts as belonging to one of the hostages.

Their name has not yet been permitted for publication.

The bodies of six slain hostages now remain held in the Gaza Strip.

9 pm tonight (in half an hour).

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-872869
"Hamas holding remains of hostage Lt. Hadar Goldin in Rafah tunnel with Hamas terrorists
According to the report, this is the main reason why the IDF and Israel's leadership have refrained from striking that position.
The remains of hostage Lt. Hadar Goldin are being held in the same tunnel within Israeli-controlled territory in the Gaza Strip as the 150 Hamas terrorists Hamas has been demanding safe passage for, Army Radio said on Wednesday.
According to the report, this is the main reason why the IDF and Israel's leadership have refrained from striking that position.
According to Army Radio's Doron Kadosh, the report "clarifies what we already knew: Hamas can bring Hadar Goldin back and does not do so."
Goldin was taken captive on August 1, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge. He was working to dismantle a terror tunnel in Rafah when two Hamas terrorists emerged from the tunnel and took him captive.
Hamas is set to return the remains of another Israeli hostage on Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., the terror organization announced in a statement.
Outside of Goldin, the remaining hostages in Gaza are Meny Godard, Ran Gvili, Joshua Loitu Mollel, Dror Or, Lior Rudaeff, and Sudthisak Rinthalak.
On Tuesday, Hamas returned the remains of Staff-Sergeant Itay Chen, while they also returned Col. Asaf Hamami, 40, Capt. Omer Neutra, 21, and St.-Sgt. Oz Daniel, 19, on Sunday.
An October report by The Jerusalem Post disclosed that Hamas has always known where Hamami and Goldin were and had been stalling their return."

Yet again tonight, 7 families will be waiting and hoping by their phones.
I hope one family has their prayers answered.

761 days
7 hostages
bring them all home now

until the last hostage

None.
Why are you posting this here?

Good news that the body of another Israeli hostage has been identified and the family informed. He was a US/Israel dual citizen and as you say above, only 19 when he was murdered by terrorists.

from Times of Israel:

The Prime Minister’s Office announces that the body returned from Gaza tonight has been identified as Sgt. Itay Chen, 19, who was killed and abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

One family did receive the phone call tonight.

7 hostages remain.

and yet again 8 families will be waiting and hoping by their phones...

I hope 1 of them get their prayers answered.

760 days
8 hostages
bring them all home now

until the last hostage