AgenPress – The Israel Defense Forces have recovered the bodies of three more hostages in the northern Gaza Strip in an overnight operation, the army announces.
Orión Hernández Radoux 30 years, Hanan Yablonka 42 years old, and Michel Nisenbaum, Aged 59, they were all killed on October 7, according to new “reliable intelligence” discovered during the war, the military says. Until recently there was no information on their status and it was believed that they were alive.
The bodies of the three were abducted in the Mefalsim area, according to the IDF, in the same place where Hamas terrorists killed and kidnapped four other hostages whose bodies were recovered last week in a tunnel in Jabaliya.
Hernández Radoux, a French-Mexican citizen, was the boyfriend of Shani Louk, one of the four hostages whose bodies were found last week. Hernández Radoux and Yablonka – along with Louk and two other hostage bodies recovered last week – were at the Supernova music festival near the border community of Re’im when it was attacked by Hamas terrorists.
They had fled to the Mefalsim area where they had been murdered and kidnapped.
Nisenbaum, from Sderot, was also killed along with the other hostages. He was going to the Gaza Division base near Re’im to pick up his granddaughter who was staying with her non-commissioned officer son-in-law.
The IDF says the bodies of the three hostages were recovered in a joint operation conducted by the military and the Shin Bet, following the analysis of “precise information” obtained in recent days.
After the bodies were identified overnight at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, family members were notified by military representatives, the IDF adds.
President Isaac Herzog says in a statement that his “heart goes out” to the families of the hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza, and thanks the IDF for allowing their return to Israel for burial.
“It is our duty as a country to return them all: the living and those we must bring to burial in Israel,” he says. “May the memories of Hanan, Orión and Michel be a blessing.”
