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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the bodies of two hostages had been found in Gaza by the army and the domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Pari.
One body was identified as belonging to Yair Yaakov, said Netanyahu, but the identity of the other was not authorized for publication.
The Israeli army said that activists from the Palestinian Islamic group Jihad kidnapped and killed Yaakov in October 7, 2023, attacking southern Israel.
The activists also took Yaakov’s partner, Meirav Tal, and two of his children, or and Yagil, hostage, but then released them, said the army. Yaakov was 59 years old at the time of his death.
He said it informed the family of the second hostage from which he recovered the body. You were found in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
There are 53 hostages still detained in Gaza, with less than half that would be alive.
So far, Israeli forces have recovered five hostages.
Air strikes, the gunshots leave 60 dead, say the managers
In Gaza on Wednesday, Israeli shots and air strikes killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them near a helping site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States and Israeli (GHF) in the center of the enclave, local health officials said.
Medical officials from the Hospitals of Shifa et al-Quds said that at least 25 people had been killed and dozens injured when approaching a food distribution center near the former Jewrim colony of Netzarim before dawn.
The Israeli army, which has been at war with Hamas activists since October 2023, said its forces had shot from the night towards a group of suspects while represented a threat to the troops in the region of the Netzarim corridor.
“This despite the warnings that the area is an active combat zone. FDI are aware of the reports concerning injured people; details are being examined,” he said.
Later Wednesday, health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, said that at least 14 people had been killed by Israeli shots when they approached another GHF site in Rafah.
The Foundation said that he was not aware of Wednesday incidents, but added that he was working closely with the Israeli authorities to ensure that the safe passage routes are maintained and that it was essential for the Palestinians to follow the instructions closely.
“In the end, the solution is more help, which will create more certainty and less emergency among the population,” he said by e-mail in response to Reuters’ questions.
“There is not yet enough food to feed everyone in need in Gaza. Our current goal is to feed as many people as possible in the constraints of a very volatile environment.”
In a statement, GHF said that it had distributed 2.5 million meals on Wednesday, the largest delivery of a day since its start of operations, bearing more than 16 million the number of meals provided since the start of its operations in late May.
The Gaza Ministry of Health says that since then, 163 Palestinians had been killed and more than 1,000 injured while trying to obtain the food boxes.
The United Nations condemned the murders and refused to provide aid via the Foundation, which uses private entrepreneurs with an Israeli military safeguard in what they say to be a violation of humanitarian standards.
Elsewhere in Gaza on Wednesday, his Ministry of Health said that at least 11 other people had been killed by separate Israeli shots and strikes through the coastal enclave.
The war broke out 20 months ago after activists led by Hamas took 251 hostages and killed some 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, according to the Israeli authorities, during the deadly day in the country.
The military campaign of Israel has since killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities in Gaza, and has flattened a large part of the densely populated band, which houses more than two million people. Most of the population is moved and malnutrition is widespread.
