Among them is a 56-year-old woman who lived in an Israeli kibbutz. The remaining four bodies are soldiers who were also killed during the October 7 attack.
Israeli forces retrieved the bodies of five Israelis held in the Gaza Strip after they were killed during Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel, the military said on Thursday.
It said the bodies of Maya Goren, 56, as well as soldiers Tomer Ahimas and Kiril Brodski, along with Ravid Aryeh Katz and Oren Goldin – military reservists – had been returned to Israel following a rescue operation.
The five had been previously announced dead, and the military and an Israeli campaign group, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, said that they all had been killed by Palestinian militants on the day of the attack.
The military said the soldiers were killed in combat while fighting the militants on October 7. Their bodies had also been taken to Gaza afterwards.
The attack by Hamas militants on that day resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse tally based on official Israeli figures.
