The Israeli military found Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American-Israeli taken by Hamas from The Nova Music Festival in October, and five other hostages dead in Gaza on Sunday.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops found the bodies of the six hostages in a tunnel underneath Rafah, a city in southern Gaza that the Biden administration had previously pressured Israel to refrain from invading. A spokesman for the Israeli military said the hostages were killed not long before their bodies were found.
“According to our initial assessment, they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement. “Their bodies were found during combat in Rafah in an underground tunnel, approximately one kilometer from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan Alkadi a few days ago.”
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