Israel receives physique from Gaza after Netanyahu says soldier killed in 2014 to be returned

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<img sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 50vw, (min-width: 1008px) 66vw, 96vw" srcset="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 240w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 320w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 480w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 640w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 800w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 1024w,https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp 1536w" src="https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/4bbf/live/531eedf0-bd73-11f0-beb0-2fd19d718a4b.jpg.webp" loading="eager" alt="Reuters Red Cross vehicle carry a deceased hostage in Gaza, 09 Nov" class="sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA"/> Reuters Israel has acquired the physique of a hostage after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he was anticipating the stays of a soldier killed in 2014 to be returned.

The physique was being taken to be formally recognized, the Israeli navy mentioned.

Earlier, Netanyahu mentioned Israel was resulting from obtain the physique of Hadar Goldin, a soldier who was killed in an ambush by Hamas throughout a earlier battle in 2014 and whose physique has been held in Gaza since then.

Hamas's armed wing additionally mentioned on Sunday that it could hand over Hadar Goldin's physique.

If the physique is confirmed to be Lt Goldin's, Hamas may have returned all 20 dwelling hostages and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages beneath the primary part of a ceasefire deal.

Netanyahu mentioned Lt Goldin's household would now have the ability to give him a Jewish burial and reiterated his intention to carry again the our bodies of all deceased hostages.

"We've got returned 250 to this point. We'll carry all of them again," he mentioned.

On Saturday Lt Goldin's household mentioned "a whole nation is ready for Hadar to be returned to us".

"We're ready for official affirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We do not quit on anybody on this nation, ever. We ask everybody to stay calm. Till it is closing, it is not over," the household mentioned in an announcement.

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Lt Goldin, from Kfar Saba, is the one deceased hostage whose stays had been being held in Gaza earlier than the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 assault on Israel, which sparked the most recent struggle.

He was killed in fight on 1 August 2014, not lengthy after the beginning of a ceasefire in that yr's struggle between Israel and Hamas. He was amongst a bunch of Israeli troopers who had been patrolling an agricultural space close to Rafah in southern Gaza after they had been attacked by a bunch of Hamas fighters.

The Israeli navy decided that Lt Goldin was killed together with two different troopers in a firefight, and that his physique was then dragged into an underground tunnel by the Hamas fighters.

The Israeli navy unleashed large firepower to attempt to forestall Hamas from taking Lt Goldin hostage. Scores of Palestinian civilians had been killed within the bombardment of Rafah, which continued for 4 days, together with after Lt Goldin was declared lifeless.

On Saturday, the Israeli navy mentioned it had recognized a physique handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.

Additionally on Saturday, two Palestinians had been killed by Israeli hearth in Gaza. The Israeli navy mentioned two individuals had crossed the yellow line that marks the road of Israeli management in Gaza and posed an "fast menace".

Israeli navy actions have killed a minimum of 241 individuals for the reason that begin of the ceasefire, in keeping with the Hamas-run well being ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as dependable.

The Israeli navy launched a marketing campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 assault, by which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 individuals in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.