Israeli Military Says Bodies of 6 Hostages Recovered From Southern Gaza

Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages, who were abducted during the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists, from a tunnel in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday. They were identified as Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Haim Perry, and Nadav Popplewell. The IDF did not say when or how the hostages died. Munder, who was 78, was kidnapped from a kibbutz with his wife, daughter, and grandson during the Oct. 7 attacks. The two women and his grandson were released during the Nov. 2023 ceasefire. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that, in response to the recovery of the bodies, Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said: “The living hostages and those who are not should only be returned through intense military pressure.”...