Hamas militants carry a white bag believed to comprise a physique, after retrieving it from a tunnel throughout a seek for the stays of hostages in Hamad Metropolis, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
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JERUSALEM — Because the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza started on Oct. 10, Palestinian militants have launched the stays of 23 hostages held for the previous two years. However the strategy of returning the our bodies of the 5 remaining hostages, as referred to as for underneath the truce deal, is progressing slowly.
Hamas says it has not been capable of attain the entire stays as a result of they’re buried underneath rubble left by Israel’s two-year offensive in Gaza. Israel has accused the militants of dragging their toes and threatened to renew army operations or withhold humanitarian help if all stays are usually not returned.
In the latest launch, Hamas returned the stays of an Israeli man who died whereas preventing Hamas within the militants’ Oct. 7, 2023 assault that began the struggle. He was recognized as Lior Rudaeff, who was 61 when he was killed.
In return, Israel has launched the our bodies of 285 Palestinians again to Gaza. Israel has not offered particulars on their identities, and it’s unclear in the event that they had been folks killed in Israel through the Oct. 7 assault, Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli custody or our bodies taken from Gaza by Israeli troops through the struggle.
Well being officers in Gaza have struggled to determine the our bodies with out entry to DNA kits and have recognized 84 of the our bodies.
This is a have a look at the hostages whose stays haven’t been returned.
Meny Godard, 73
Meny Godard was knowledgeable soccer participant earlier than enlisting within the Israeli army and serving within the 1973 Mideast Battle, based on Kibbutz Be’eri. He served in quite a lot of totally different positions within the kibbutz, together with at its printing press.
On the morning of Oct. 7, Godard and his spouse, Ayelet, had been compelled out of their house after it was set on hearth. She hid within the bushes for a variety of hours earlier than militants found her and killed her. She was capable of inform her youngsters that Meny had been killed earlier than she died. The household held a double funeral for the couple. They’re survived by 4 youngsters and 6 grandchildren.
Hadar Goldin, 23
Hadar Goldin’s stays are the one ones which have been held in Gaza since earlier than the struggle. The Israeli soldier was killed on Aug. 1, 2014, two hours after a ceasefire took impact ending the that 12 months’s struggle between Israel and Hamas. Primarily based on proof discovered within the tunnel the place Goldin’s physique was taken, together with a blood-soaked shirt and prayer fringes, the army rapidly decided that he had been killed within the assault.
Goldin is survived by his mother and father and three siblings, together with a twin. He had proposed to his fiancée earlier than he was killed. Earlier this 12 months, Goldin’s household marked 4,000 days since his physique was taken. The army retrieved the physique of one other soldier who was killed within the 2014 struggle earlier this 12 months.
Ran Gvili, 24
Ran Gvili, who served in an elite police unit, was recovering from a damaged shoulder he sustained in a motorbike accident however rushed to help fellow officers on Oct. 7. After serving to folks escape from the Nova music competition, he was killed preventing at one other location and his physique was taken to Gaza. The army confirmed his dying 4 months later. He’s survived by his mother and father and a sister.
Dror Or, 52
Dror Or was a father of three who labored on the dairy farm on Kibbutz Be’eri for 15 years, rising to the place of supervisor. He was an knowledgeable cheesemaker, based on household and pals. On Oct. 7, the household was hiding of their protected room when militants lit the home on hearth. Dror and his spouse, Yonat, had been killed. Two of their youngsters, Noam, 17, and Alma, 13, had been kidnapped and launched through the November 2023 ceasefire.
Sudthisak Rinthalak
Sudthisak Rinthalak was an agricultural employee from Thailand who had been employed at Kibbutz Be’eri. In response to media experiences, Rinthalak was divorced and had been working in Israel since 2017. A complete of 31 staff from Thailand had been kidnapped on Oct. 7, the biggest group of foreigners to be held in captivity. Most of them had been launched within the first and second ceasefires. The Thai Overseas Ministry has stated along with the hostages, 46 Thais have been killed through the struggle.
