What We Know About the 6 Hostages Who Were Murdered in Gaza

Published on September 1, 2024

JERUSALEM—Israel said early Sunday that it had recovered the bodies of six hostages captured during the Hamas terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attack that ignited the Gaza war, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents had led a high-profile campaign for the captives’ release. The military said the six were murdered by Hamas shortly before Israeli forces were to rescue them and that the bodies were found in a tunnel beneath the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Goldberg-Polin and four other hostages were taken from a music festival where the Hamas terrorists killed scores of people. The sixth was captured from a nearby farming community....