Israeli Forces Recover Bodies of American-Israeli Couple Taken Into Gaza
TEL AVIV—Israel's military on Thursday said it retrieved the bodies of an American-Israeli couple who were killed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack and whose bodies were taken into Gaza.
Judy Weinstein Haggai and her husband Gad Haggai, both in their 70s, were killed by members of a group called Kitab al-Mujahidin, a Gaza-based Palestinian militant group that isn't affiliated with Hamas. The group then took the couple's bodies into Gaza and has held them there since, the Israeli military said.
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