Israeli PM says bodies of 2 more hostages recovered from Gaza

Thomson Reuters

· Posted: Jun 11, 2025 3:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected Wednesday that the bodies of 2 hostages person been recovered from Gaza by the subject and the home quality agency, the Shin Bet.

One assemblage was identified arsenic belonging to Yair Yaakov, Netanyahu said, but the individuality of the different has not been cleared for publication.

The Israeli subject said militants from the Palestinian radical Islamic Jihad abducted and killed Yaakov during the Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected confederate Israel.

Militants besides took Yaakov's partner, Meirav Tal, and 2 of his children, Or and Yagil, hostage but aboriginal released them, the subject said. Yaakov was 59 astatine the clip of his death.

It said it notified the household of the 2nd hostage whose assemblage it recovered. Thy were found in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

There are 53 hostages inactive being held successful Gaza, with less than fractional believed to beryllium alive.

Israeli forces person recovered 5 hostages' bodies truthful acold this month.

Airstrikes, gunfire permission 60 dead, officials say

In Gaza connected Wednesday, Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed astatine slightest 60 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them near an assistance tract operated by the U.S- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) successful the centre of the enclave, section wellness officials said.

Medical officials astatine Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals said astatine slightest 25 radical were killed and dozens wounded as they approached a food organisation centre near the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim before dawn.

Israel's military, which has been at war with Hamas militants since  October 2023, said its forces fired informing shots overnight toward a radical of suspects arsenic they posed a menace to troops successful the country of the Netzarim Corridor.

"This is contempt warnings that the country is an progressive combat zone. The IDF is alert of reports regarding individuals injured; the details are nether review," it said.

Later Wednesday, wellness officials astatine Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis successful the southern Gaza Strip said astatine slightest 14 radical had been killed by Israeli gunfire arsenic they approached different GHF tract successful Rafah.

The instauration said it was unaware of Wednesday's incidents but added that it was moving intimately with Israeli authorities to guarantee harmless transition routes are maintained, and that it was indispensable for Palestinians to intimately travel instructions.

"Ultimately, the solution is much aid, which volition make much certainty and little urgency among the population," it said by email successful effect to Reuters questions.

"There is not yet capable nutrient to provender everyone successful request in Gaza. Our existent absorption is to provender arsenic galore radical arsenic is safely imaginable wrong the constraints of a highly volatile environment."

In a statement, GHF said it distributed 2.5 cardinal meals connected Wednesday, the largest single-day transportation since it began operations, bringing to much than 16 cardinal the fig of meals provided since its operations started successful precocious May.

Gaza's Health Ministry says that since then, 163 Palestinians had been killed and implicit 1,000 wounded trying to get the nutrient boxes.

The United Nations has condemned the killings and has refused to proviso assistance via the foundation, which uses backstage contractors with Israeli subject backup successful what they accidental is simply a breach of humanitarian standards.

Elsewhere in Gaza on Wednesday, its wellness ministry said astatine slightest 11 different radical were killed by abstracted Israeli gunfire and strikes crossed the coastal enclave.

The warfare erupted 20 months agone after Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages and killed immoderate 1,200 radical connected Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli authorities say, successful what was the country's azygous deadliest day.

Israel's subject run has since killed astir 55,000 Palestinians, according to wellness authorities in Gaza, and flattened overmuch of the densely populated strip, which is location to much than 2 cardinal people. Most of the colonisation is displaced and malnutrition is widespread.