Israeli army announces recovery of body of hostage in Gaza. Elad Katzir, who was 47 years old at the time of his kidnapping on October 7.
His mother Hanna, also taken hostage, was released on November 24 in the only conflict in six months of war between Israel and Hamas. His father Avraham was killed the day of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on the kibbutz. “Elad was taken from his home in Nir Oz alive and in one piece, and was filmed twice during his captivity” by his captors, says his sister Carmit Palty Katzir.