Israel searches Thai corpses, latest hostages recover from 2023 Hamas attack
Israel's defense minister said the military had retrieved the body of Thai hostage Nattapong Pinta, who has been in Gaza since October 7, 2023, and Hamas attacked Hamas.
According to local medical staff, Katz, Israel announced the news on Saturday, killing 15 people in Israeli air strikes.
The news comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the military has taken back the body of Judih Weinstein of Canada and her husband, Israeli United States, Gadi Haggai, who are also one of 251 people kidnapped by Islamic militants.
Weinstein was one of the Canadian citizens killed in the October 7 attack.
Katz said Pingta's body was held by the Palestinian militant group Jihad and was recovered from the Rafa region in southern Gaza. His family in Thailand has been notified.
Pinta, an agricultural worker, was kidnapped in Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small Israeli community near the Gaza border, during the Hamas attack that caused the Gaza War, one-quarter of the population was killed or hostages.
Israeli troops said Pinta was kidnapped and killed by kidnappers, who also killed Weinstein and Hager's bodies Gaza.
The jihadists did not immediately comment, and the brigade had previously denied killing their captives or Hamas. The Israeli military said the brigade still possesses the remains of another foreign national. Only 20 of the remaining 55 hostages are believed to be alive.
Israeli authorities said the jihadist brigade also held and killed Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas and her two young sons. Their bodies returned during a two-month ceasefire, which was unable to reach a consensus in March on the conditions to extend it to Phase II, and it collapsed.
Since then, Israel's efforts as the United States, Katari and Egypt have led to secure another ceasefire have expanded its offensive in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military has recovered the bodies of Canadian Israeli Judih Weinstein and her husband Israeli US Gadi Haggai. Hamas has held a body in Gaza since 2023.
Local health authorities said at least 15 Palestinians were killed and 50 injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza City, Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The Israeli army did not immediately comment. Later, it warned people to evacuate the nearby Jabbaria area, saying it would strike there after nearby militants fired rockets.
Palestinian health officials said on Saturday that hospitals in Gaza only have enough fuel for three days, an area where Israel refused to enter international rescue agencies to the fuel storage where designated hospitals are located.
Israeli military or Kogat did not immediately respond to the Israeli defense agency, which coordinates humanitarian affairs with the Palestinians.
US-supported aid team stops distribution
The United Nations warns that the majority of Gaza's 2.3 million people are at risk of famine after Israel's 11-week lockdown on its enclave, with the rate of young children suffering from acute malnutrition almost three times.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by the United States and Israel, said overcrowding has made it unsafe to continue operations. It is not clear whether aid will resume on Saturday.
On Wednesday, the GHF suspended operations and asked the Israeli military to have the Israeli military at Palestinian hospital officials said between June 1 and 3 that more than 80 people were shot and hundreds were injured.
Local health authorities say ten Palestinians were killed in Israeli tank fires in Gaza.
The GHF began distributing food packaging in Gaza at the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution, which the United Nations said is neither just nor neutral. It said it has served about 9 million meals so far.
Israel faces international pressure on the offensive against Hamas, which has plunged Gaza into a humanitarian crisis and displaced most of its population.
But when Hamas-led militants took 251 hostages and killed 1,200 people in the October 7, 2023 attack, the war had no end.
Since then, Israel's military movement has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians and left most of the densely populated coastal enclaves in the ruins, according to Gaza's health authorities.
The remaining hostage families say they fear those who are alive will be at risk of Israel's ongoing offensive dangers, and the dead will be killed forever. Israel said the campaign aims to bring them all back to Hamas rule in Gaza.
Israeli officials said more than 40 hostages were killed in prison, some of whom were attacked by Israeli strikes and others were killed by kidnappers.
