The military rushed to find Gvili’s remains as the clock ticked down for Israel to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing.
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, with James Genn contributing – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com
The IDF found the remains of the last Israeli hostage from the October 7 invasion, St.-Sgt.-Maj. Ran Gvili, on Monday at around 2:00 p.m. at al-Batesh cemetery in the Shejaia-Daraj-Tuffah part of northern Gaza. His funeral will be held on Wednesday in his hometown of Meitar.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Monday night revealed that the major intelligence development that led to the breakthrough was the capture of a specific Islamic Jihad terrorist with knowledge of Gvili’s remains’ whereabouts around a month ago.
This terrorist also divulged, under Shin Bet interrogation, the identities and locations of additional Islamic Jihad operatives who had been involved in moving Gvili’s body numerous times.
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