According to the IDF, the hostages were murdered by Hamas about a day or two before soldiers reached them.
Israel has recovered the bodies of six hostages who were murdered by Hamas terrorists:
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Here’s more information from the Times of Israel:
“Overnight, the IDF recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages from a Hamas tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, who according to the military were murdered by their captors not long before they were found.
The hostages are Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lubnov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 25.
According to the IDF, the six were murdered by Hamas a short while, possibly around a day or two, before troops found them.”
Spencer Fernando
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