Awful news, and enraging. Israeli forces found the bullet-ridden bodies of six hostages known to have been captured alive by Hamas in a Rafah tunnel earlier today. One of the hostages killed was Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American whose parents pleaded for his release at the Democrat convention.
Hamas had murdered them no longer than 48 hours before their bodies were discovered:
The bodies of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino were found in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Sunday morning.
The IDF retrieved the bodies of the hostages from a tunnel under the city of Rafah in Gaza.
They were likely slaughtered by Hamas shortly before the IDF got to them in Rafah.
The hostages didn’t get killed as a direct result of a firefight between IDF forces and Hamas terrorists. The IDF didn’t encounter any resistance in the…