According to the announcement, Dror Or, aged 49, was confirmed as a casualty following further forensic investigation by the IDF. He had been held as a hostage since the attack.
Amid the war on Hamas across the border in Gaza, Indian students studying in Israel expressed gratitude towards the Indian embassy and authorities in New Delhi for ensuring their safe return in the wake of the horrific terror attacks of October 7, last year, targeting the southern kibbutz
The Israel Defense Forces notified residents of Nahal Oz, one of the Gaza-border communities devastated by Hamas's attack, that they may return to the kibbutz.
As Israel-Hamas war has completed six months, Ella, a member of the IDF Spokesperson Unit, stood before the remnants of her family's home, as she recounted the horror that unfolded on October 7.
President Isaac Herzog Thursday hosted President Javier Milei of Argentina on a tour of Kibbutz Nir Oz on the Gaza border. One quarter of the Kibbutz members were either murdered or taken hostage in the abhorrent attack by Hamas terrorists on 7 October.
The attacks were in response to a pair of aerial drones that crossed the border from Lebanon and crashed near Kibbutz Kfar Blum. No casualties or damage were reported.
Hamas terrorists took Bibas, his 4-year-old brother Ariel, and their parents, Shiri and Yarden, from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz along with some 240 others during the Oct. 7 assault on the northwestern Negev.
The claim was filed by lawyers Anat and Gilad Ginzburg, who note that the night before Hamas's invasion, top security brass held meetings amid intelligence indicating abnormal activity in the Gaza Strip
Israel continued pressing its Gaza offensive in the new year, killing a Hamas commander in an air strike and pounding more of the terror group's infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday morning.