The victim was identified by Israel on Thursday as Yehudit Weiss.
The Israeli army announced on Thursday, November 16, that it had discovered near the Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza the body of a hostage held by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas during the October 7 attack in Israel had been kidnapped.
The body of this woman abducted from Kibbutz Beeri “was recovered by Israeli army troops from a building next to Al-Chifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip and transferred to Israeli territory,” an army press release said.
“Rocket launcher” found
The victim is identified by the military as Yehudit Weiss. “Military equipment was also found in the building where Yehudit was located, including Kalashnikov rifles and rocket launchers,” the army added. According to authorities, around 240 people were captured during the Hamas attack on Israeli territory on October 7.
On October 30, the Israeli army announced that it had released a Gaza soldier kidnapped by Hamas in an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory. In retaliation, Israel declared a war to “annihilate” Hamas and relentlessly bombed the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian Islamist movement seized power in 2007.
Earlier in the day, the army announced that “images related to the hostages” had been found on computers seized from Gaza’s Al-Chifa Hospital, which had been stormed for two days. Al-Chifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, is portrayed by Israel as a strategic and military center of Hamas, a claim denied by the Islamist movement that seized power in Gaza in 2007.